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Refuting Salena Zito’s recent opinion column

DEAR EDITOR: While Salena Zito’s March 1 op-ed (“Where Was ‘60 Minutes’ Crew When Youngstown Jobs Were Cut?”) contains a number of objective historical truths, she surrounds these with rhetorical distortions that undercut her credibility. For example: She declaratively states, “National newspapers buried the story on page A-12,” but doesn’t mention a single national newspaper that did this, and so it’s impossible to verify that broad claim. She then goes on to chastise The New York Times for not reporting the story “in real time,” which is amusing, since ...

Legalized marijuana is a bad idea for Ohio

DEAR EDITOR: I find it interesting, and a bit amusing, the recent lamenting of several local elected officials regarding Gov. DeWine’s move to stop a portion of the marijuana tax money from returning to local governments. These officials, including Austintown Trustee Robert Santos, Youngstown Mayor Tito Brown and elected officials from Struthers, Niles and Warren, were all in favor of marijuana dispensaries opening in their communities when they believed they were going to receive a piece of the financial pie, or shall we say the marijuana brownie! However, now that there is a ...

Sound off! Readers share their thoughts

All these Trump haters writing in! Give him a chance. Remember what the alternative was. — Boardman Whether you voted for Trump and Vance or not, I feel shame. Do you? — New Springfield On Biden’s first day in office he signed multiple executive orders. One cost 11,000 jobs and $2 billion in wages by shutting down the Keystone Pipeline. I don’t recall CNN or MSNBC interviewing or sympathizing with those workers. Those jobs were for energy independence. If a Democrat had created DOGE to find out which government job is essential and which are waste and fraud, would you be ...

Letters to the editor

The seven deadly sins from the Bible and the Anti-Christ DEAR EDITOR: 1). Pride ... I fear I am less than, so I strut around in arrogance to compensate. 2). Covetousness ... I fear you have too much and I don’t have enough. 3). Lust ... I fear I am not getting enough. 4). Anger ... I fear I won’t get what I want or something I have will be taken away. 5). Envy ... I fear I can’t catch up to you in whatever. 6). Gluttony ... I fear emptiness inside, so I fill up with food. 7). Sloth ... I fear making an effort or I fear success or / ...

All that OT is a public-safety issue

DEAR EDITOR: A couple of Friday’s ago, David Skolnick’s headline article addressed overtime usage of the Youngstown Police department. Last year, 15 officers in the department made over $50K in overtime pay and one officer worked over 2,700 hours of overtime which paid him over $150K. This number of overtime hours, plus regular hours, is equivalent to working over 13 hours per day, 7 days a week for an entire year. Try working those hours for a month and see how productive you are at your nonpublic safety job. I don’t take issue with the dedication of our police officers, or ...

Dems against what’s good for America

DEAR EDITOR: I had a letter written and prepared to submit to the editor. Then I read the Jan. 2 editorial pages. The outright lies and hatred for Trump were stunning coming from allegedly intelligent people. You are too bitter to think rationally. Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 people because he is emulating Hitler and his brown shirts, the Jan. 6 people will be his personal army to go after his detractors. Trump believes God spared his life to be his chosen commander — defy Trump and you defy God. Elon Musk was saluting Hitler as he was jumping up and down with his arm in the air. ...