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Education can take you anywhere

DEAR EDITOR: Education is the key to all doors of opportunities, and forms the map to guide us through the maze of roads in our lives. It frees us from poverty, if we are poor, and gives us better insight and appreciation, if we were born rich. Education has no boundaries and no expiration dates. We often wrongly equate poverty as a cause of lack of education. The myth has been repeated so much, and for so long, that we actually believe it. Started from humble beginnings are: Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Larry Ellison, CEO of the giant software, ...

Dictator for just a day? That’s not very likely

DEAR EDITOR: As a veteran I must speak out against oligarchy, totalitarianism, tyranny, megalomania, insanity, and yes the cowards in my former political party. I plead to Congress and USSC Justices to stop the insanity of implementing Canadian tariffs. There may be a justification for placing a significant tariff on Mexico considering the immigration problem and for other reasons with China. But what is the justification for placing any tariff let alone a 25% tariff on Canada, our national ally for generations of United States citizens? Have we become so immoral that we want to ...

Racist in chief and his attack on DEI

DEAR EDITOR: I will never understand how DEI has become the new right boogeyman. DEI initiatives simply try to bring more voices to the table, to enfranchise the disenfranchised and to include those that have been previously oppressed. But seemingly none of that matters. It is a convenient label that can be used to spread racism under thinner and thinner veils. These days I don’t think there is any use tiptoeing around things anymore. This is racism, pure and simple. What else can “anti-DEI” mean? What else can Trump mean when he blamed DEI for the D.C. air collision? That ...

Nepotism continues to happen in Youngstown

DEAR EDITOR: So Tito Brown hired his daughter-in-law for a city position. Is anyone surprised? I took a written civil service test in 2018 for the Youngstown Water Department collections supervisor position. I finished first on the test, I have been a lifelong resident of Youngstown and I hold a degree from YSU. To this day, I still have those test results. I interviewed with water commissioner Harry Johnson and the office manager. Both said I was the most qualified for the job, but the final decision was up to Brown. After more than a week’s wait, I called and was told the ...

DEI is a practice, it’s not a mandate

DEAR EDITOR: At this writing, our current president has signed 270 “Executive Orders” and there is no doubt it will continue to grow. This isn’t anything new. Past presidents have signed such orders, but the average is right around 250 for their entire four-year term. What exactly is an “Executive Order?“ An “Executive Order” is an action taken by the sitting president that directs federal agencies how to implement current laws and changes in administering such laws. It also can be a presidential proclamation, the most impactful action being the “amending” or ...

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Mike Peppel knew what he was doing as a scammer, collecting donations, to help the victims of the East Palestine train disaster. The money was supposed to go to The Second Harvest Food Bank to help the victims. Instead it went in his pocket! Even though he paid it back, he is still a criminal. Michael Rulli lost my vote and many others when he hired Peppel as his communications director. Rulli might consider making amends to the people of East Palestine by sending a Rulli Gift Card of about $200 or more to each affected family in East Palestine. — Canfield Why is it that for the ...