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How America’s love of air conditioning became a hot topic

Editorials

By Mitch Albom Few things in life, besides a glass of water when you are crossing the desert, offer as much immediate relief as air conditioning. You’re boiling outside, you pull open a door, you step into a paradise of 68-degree air, and your body all but screams “Hallelujah!” In years past, businesses used to boast that their confines were chilled. Movie marquees used to promote “manufactured weather!” Roadside motels would flash “A.C.” in neon. Restaurants, banks, department stores, all happily bragged that they were cool — in the literal sense of the word. It ...

When the guardrails are destroyed

Editorials

People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and grandparents. They believed such things would lead to better lives for themselves and for the nation. For many, they did. Today we look at the lawlessness, the antisemitism, the hate speech directed at the president, teen takeovers, attacks on police officers, and others and we might ask: why is this happening? The answer can be found on the side of the road. To use a metaphor, the guardrails have been removed. Guardrails are crash-tested barriers ...

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Well, it has been a long time coming and the Western Reserve Road widening project appears to be nearly completed. What a relief after all the detours and traffic issues. But has anyone noticed the railroad crossing near Southern Boulevard? What the heck? Did someone not realize that the crossing gate needed to be moved? The gate is right in the middle of the new lane and traffic is being directed around it. This project has been going on for years, and this was not addressed? Unbelievable! — Poland Wake up, America! Are you aware that the REPUBLICANS in the U.S. Congress voted ...

Orchids & onions

Editorials

ORCHID: To the Poland Township Police Department for its statewide honors and recognition as this month’s Agency of the Month for outstanding community policing from The Law Enforcement Foundation and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. The award is most fitting, given the police force’s hodgepodge of community engagement programs that include its Citizen Police Academy, Coffee with a Cop, Safety Forces Appreciation Picnic and many others. The value of such transparent and highly accountable community policing programs can never be overstated. They include fostering greater ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

White supremacists are a stain on America DEAR EDITOR: I have a question for the 400 white supremacists who marched through Washington D.C., on July 4. What kind of a man needs to wear a mask, a hat and sunglasses and march onto a metro train and surround a young black girl sitting by herself? The answer is — a coward. I wonder where their bravado came from. What was this young girl supposed to do? Go home, pack and leave the country so only the superior white people could live here? Menacing people of color the way you did was not only criminal, but shameful! You do know ...

Prescription for a socialist workforce

Editorials

America has a socialism problem, and it’s bigger than most citizens realize. When candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America win Democratic Party primaries, or New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hails “the warmth of collectivism,” socialism’s advance is obvious. But it’s making gains in other ways, too, especially in the transformation of America’s workforce — which is coming to be chiefly employed in a sector one step removed from outright government control: healthcare. In 1990, manufacturing was the top employment sector in most states, including New ...