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YSU should practice due diligence as it expands

DEAR EDITOR: I am cautiously optimistic about YSU opening a satellite campus in Steubenville. Four members of my family are YSU graduates with six degrees in widely varied fields of study. We all faced challenges, but on-campus support services and dedicated faculty who truly wanted their students to succeed helped us complete our degrees and move into fulfilling careers. Our youngest child chose a program that is not available at YSU but could be completed at Kent State East Liverpool. Being neurodivergent, she was concerned about entering college, but hard work and determination ...

Learning the truth about employee-paid health care

DEAR EDITOR: You’re a locally important civic leader with formal authority in your organization and significant influence outside of it. You see the rescission of Obamacare for millions of Americans as a complicating factor with unknown consequences for your thinking about health care. How should you think? What should you and your colleagues in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys’ civic leadership do? Consider this. Approach your colleagues and ask for their public support in proposing the Chief Actuary in the Health Care Financing Administration conduct an investigation into ...

Furor over voter ID is much ado about nothing

DEAR EDITOR: What is wrong with Democrats? Anyone who moves to a different city, county, state or district — not just veterans — has to register to vote with ID. If you lose any personal documents, you CAN get new ones. What is the big deal when you get married, you get a card from the courthouse with your married name on it, I did. As for people of color, it is no different. When you see a doctor, register into a hospital, license plates, stickers for a car, a new driver’s license, proof of car insurance, rent a car, rent an apartment, get subsidized housing, or apply for ...

Sound off!

The Libs/Dems want voter rights when 20 million people (illegals?) don’t have a birth certificate to show proof of identity. How about voter responsibility, instead? — Hubbard Shortly after Robert Mueller passed away, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Good. I’m glad he’s dead.” What a disgusting, vile thing to say about anyone! Sadly, I’m afraid millions will be saying the same thing when this pathetic human being heads off to Hades. — Youngstown This is regarding the human trafficking case in Trumbull County. Six people, who pleaded guilty, got a slap on the wrist and ...

Belmont Park Cemetery needs help

DEAR EDITOR: Thank you to the Tribune and Vindicator for recent coverage of Belmont Park Cemetery. The story drew needed attention to the cemetery’s need for assistance — most urgently the preservation of the historic mausoleum. About a year ago, state law required Liberty Township to assume responsibility for the cemetery after the association could no longer afford maintenance. The township is committed to caring for the grounds, but trust earnings and minimal burial fees don’t cover major capital projects. The mausoleum (about 4,500 square feet, roughly 500 vaults and a ...

Lots of ‘maybes’ about Trump’s war in Iran

DEAR EDITOR: Maybe if Trump had respected the American people by discussing necessary information pertaining to this war beforehand. Maybe if Trump had discussed this war with Congress and some smart people. Maybe if Trump didn’t sneak around everybody. Maybe if Trump hadn’t lied about his “attack” intentions. Maybe if Trump threatened less and listened more. Maybe if Trump had something more intelligent than just an “idea or thought” of war. Maybe if Trump didn’t use language like “just for fun” when speaking of this war.. Maybe if Trump and Hegseth ...