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Letters to the Editor

Star Parker’s opinions are not reality-based

DEAR EDITOR: Star Parker’s pervasive nonsense got loose again in her column printed in the December 31-January 1 edition of the Vindicator. She supports Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying our declining fertility rate is a “national security threat.” Along ...

Do we really need a state income tax anymore?

DEAR EDITOR: Ohio has gradually become the land of tax and spend. In 1971, the year before the state income tax appeared on the ballot, the entire state functioned on tax collections amounting to $1.6 billion. In 2024, tax collections mushroomed to $26.3 billion. The state income tax alone ...

When those who govern don’t follow the law

DEAR EDITOR: Nobody likes to be told “what to do” or “what you can’t do,” but to have an open societal function, one that provides safety, health, protection from harm for all, such rules, regulations, aka “Laws,” must be in place and, more importantly, followed. So many of ...

Let’s make the members of Congress do their jobs

DEAR EDITOR: Now comes the new year dragging behind it all the problems of past years to bedevil the hopes of millions of citizens. The millstones round our necks might be removed by Americans raising Cain with Congress to grow spine enough to recover its Constitutionally authorized powers. ...

Why are Mahoning Valley leaders letting MCP die?

DEAR EDITOR: My heart hurts, and I feel so depressed about the world and all that is happening. We have our beautiful deer being made a mockery of by the underground that runs the Mahoning Valley. We can’t do a thing; we are only the owners and taxpayers. Some politicians join our group ...

Sound off!

Your 1/5/25 publishing of “Ohio congressional reaction”—all Republicans—to the Maduro kidnapping is interesting. It illuminates the gerrymandered, voter-suppressed electorate of Ohio. The four quoted, Husted, Moreno, Joyce and Rulli, are all in lock-step with the Fuehrer. At least our ...