How can “new vegetation” grow in Mill Creek Park with all the fallen dead trees? They are left to rot. Nothing will grow under dead wood. Just drive through the park and observe. I’ve lived by the park for 18 years and have yet to see them remove a fallen tree. First, the geese, then the deer … are the walkers next??

• Boardman

There is no comparison between dollar stores in the suburbs to ones in city, as the suburbs have other stores to choose from. They have to put produce in to draw people from other stores. We don’t have that option in Youngstown. Beggars can’t be choosers. We need what we have. Don’t take our only option off the table. Council is punishing our community by limiting stores from coming here. Now we’ll be unfed, unclean and uninspired to look up.

• Youngstown

FYI. Do you know that hydrilla powder supplement is loaded with calcium and antioxidants? Noted to aid in weight loss and increase energy supporting healthy bones skin hair and nails. Hydrilla also is used as a biofertilizer in agricultural farming. Eradicating hydrilla from Mosquito Lake may be a good use of taxpayer monies but it goes to prove that everything in God’s creation has a purpose.

• Warren

I just saw in the Business Journal that Trumbull and Mahoning County commissioners just won the Chamber’s Spirit of the Valley Award. Now I know what $1,000,000 will get you. Great investment…not. Waste of taxpayer money.

• Warren

Someone should be embarrassed to sign their name to selfish and ignorant thoughts as the letter writer who doesn’t want his tax money to go toward repairing the Key Bridge in Baltimore. I assume conservative media did not tell the author that over 50,000 jobs, $16 billion in personal income and, most importantly to a conservative I’m sure, $63 billion in business revenue are affected by the bridge being knocked out. So sad to see conservatives be this selfish.

• Warren

Between 1941 and 1945 we lost hundreds of thousands of our “boys” and women fighting the Japanese after their surprise attack of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The crew of the USS Arizona still lies in their underwater grave. What would they be thinking today, if they were alive? US Steel shareholders recently sold the company to Nippon Steel of Japan! I’m sure those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, would be saying, “This is such an unpatriotic move!”

• Canfield

Trump, take your knife out of the back of Ukraine. If “Mad Vlad” Putin’s tanks roll into Kiev, it will be solely your fault. If Zelensky suffers the same fate as Navalny, his blood will be on your hands. To those who support this betrayal, I say: If you’re so pro-Putin, why don’t you move to Russia? (I’m sure you’ll love living there.) Remember: Those who try to trade freedom for safety end up with neither.

• Austintown

The Democrats and President Biden have made expanding abortion the main focus of their presidential campaign. What about the issues of illegal immigration and the open border, high prices and inflation, energy, the national debt, current wars, etc.? These are issues that affect everyone. If the Democrats are basing their campaign on the aborting of unborn babies, how does this make us a better country? May God help them and all of us if they succeed.

• Poland Township

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