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Letters to the Editor

RFK aims to reverse nation’s autism trend

DEAR EDITOR: I wish The Vindicator editorial staff chose to write an opinion piece about the naked 4- or 5-year-old boy found standing on the lawn of a home on the West Side in August but they didn’t. From a Vindicator article on the story: “A child 4 to 5 years old was found standing in ...

Repercussions for sex assault are necessary

DEAR EDITOR: As an “OLDER (widowed) woman,” I am no longer subjected to “playing the games” often seemingly taken for granted in society, but I have lived long enough, and painfully experienced vicariously, the traumas faced by younger relatives, AND the enduring mental / ...

Is MCP a sanctuary or a killing field?

DEAR EDITOR: The slaughter in Mill Creek Park will be in the townships of Boardman, Smith, Beaver and Canfield. These areas contain specific preserves and sanctuaries designated for the park’s deer-management program. Sanctuaries are supposed to be fundamentally a place *of safety or ...

Ursuline must face its day of reckoning

DEAR EDITOR: A young defenseless boy is kidnapped, sexually and physically assaulted. Videos of the assault are made and shared online. Threats and intimidations are made to prevent the boy from disclosing these heinous crimes against him, but he bravely comes forward to accuse his attackers. ...

How about real facts on ‘vampire’ power?

DEAR EDITOR: A couple comments about the recent article “Vampire power sucks energy dollars.” In a similar vein, I have wondered about daytime running lights on cars. The amount of extra fuel needed to power those lights must be so minuscule as to be incalculable. But what is minuscule ...

Republicans are doing billionaires’ bidding

DEAR EDITOR: All American multi-billionaires hire lobbyist firms with huge sums of their money to lobby our Congress “to get whatever they want,” a threat to our democracy, foreign policy and workers’ cost-of-living wages. It must be true, money talks and “BS” walks. In 1980, 45 ...