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Trump accepting “gift jet” from Qatar, and no one thinks this is wrong? I must be in bizarro world! — Boardman To all you Rip Van Winkles (Democrats) you must have been asleep during the last four years when Joe Biden was President, you don’t seem to be aware of all the damage that he caused (gas and egg prices skyrocketed along with crime and so much more), Also under his watch, 13 of our soldiers were killed during the botched Afghanistan War withdrawal, so wake up and stop the Trump hate for he is exposing all the waste in big government. — Canfield The nicest thing ...

Local favorite is now commercialized

DEAR EDITOR: Growing up in Canfield, White House Fruit Farm was a local favorite. My first job, weekends out with family and friends. Lots of good memories. I am sad to observe it has turned so commercial as evidenced with the latest and greatest, “Walk in the Tulips.” I was all for this, until I looked online and realized that it was taken by reservations, for $15 a person. My heart dropped. For that price I could take a family of four to a Scrappers baseball game or a movie and still have money in my pocket. And those venues would last two to three hours. Seriously, how ...

We can’t let FEMA be disbanded

DEAR EDITOR: The Federal Emergency Management Agency organizes and funds support for communities hit by natural disasters. That’s become even more important with climate change. True to Project 2025, Trump is threatening to destroy the agency, and he’s used disaster relief as a political weapon. Trump says states should cover the costs of emergency management within their borders with an unspecified amount of reimbursement from Washington. He’s signed an executive order directing states and localities to do more, and his Secretary of Homeland Security told a cabinet meeting ...

Are you angry yet? You should be

DEAR EDITOR: It’s time to be angry that the president wants to shrink government. It sounded good to President Trump’s supporters when he was on the campaign trail. But it’s not so great. We have long been the richest nation on Earth. At the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, our GDP totaled about $27 trillion. China, ranking second, had about $17 trillion. The International Monetary Fund stated that the USA’s economy led the world, according to the Wall Street Journal, and our success helped other countries to become financially sounder. The GDP is the total money that ...

Mothers are special every single day

DEAR EDITOR: To be a Mother is the most honorable, wonderful cherished position a woman can hold. It is a Gift from God. A Mother gives of herself to her children. She sacrifices, goes without for her child, yet she never complains. She may not wear the best of clothes, yet she always makes sure that her children look presentable. A Mother’s love has no bounds. A Mother instills in her children “right from wrong.” She is her children’s biggest cheerleader. and advocate. A Mother guides her children with a “velvet glove,” yet that same “velvet glove” can quickly ...

We’ve somehow found ourselves in ‘1984’

DEAR EDITOR: George Orwell warns us in his novel, “1984,” “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” The Trump regime appears determined to fulfill this dystopian prophecy with an executive order that seeks to remove “improper ideology” from revered cultural institutions. The targets of his executive order Include not only the Smithsonian Museu Focus has been placed upon the National Museum of African American History and Culture suggesting that history is up for the interpretation of the present regime. Anti-DEI ...