Dear Mr. Trump, Wouldn’t it be better to go back to the original name of the Kennedy Center? Maybe then all the artists would be glad to perform. Then you wouldn’t have to shut down the center and spend all that money on gold decorations. They will just be torn down after you leave.

• Canfield

Barack Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his presidency. He gave Tom Homan a medal for doing it. Where was the outrage and riots then? It’s such hypocrisy from the radical Democrats for acting like they are now.

• Hubbard

After reading the editorial on unclaimed funds, I followed your advice and told my daughter to follow up on the website for the unclaimed funds in her name. Your editorial concluded with…”If you’ve got a minute to spare, it’s worth your time.” Seriously, I think her time is worth more than 32 cents. I think Ohio should not waste the time and energy that they expend keeping track of unclaimed funds under $1 or $5 or even $10.

• Canfield

Another citizen killed in Minneapolis by the incompetent goons. Kristi Noem immediately announces he was “brandishing a gun” with the intent to kill as many agents as possible. Anyone who saw the videos can see he had a cellphone in one hand and went to the aid of a woman who was pushed to the ground by these goons. He and the woman were pepper sprayed and wrestled to the ground. In the scuffle, his legally carried weapon was taken from him, and he was then shot.

• Youngstown

Trump wants the 90,000-square-foot ballroom built, a 100,000-person stadium built next to the White House, a 250-foot tall “arc de Trump” built opposite the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. He has a framed photo of himself with Putin — one of the worst dictators in history who has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds of children from Ukraine and has hundreds held in appalling conditions in underground prisons — on a wall in the White House. Republicans, stop Trump from this mania.

• Liberty

If I could vote for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to be president of the U.S., I would in a minute. He is articulate, intelligent and calm in his speeches, and he is not giving in to Trump’s threats.

• Liberty

In March of 2024 Gov. DeWine launched the Ohio Collaborative Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (OCLEAP), the state-funded initiative designed to standardize and professionalize law enforcement agencies. It focuses on increasing transparency, trust and accountability through compliance with close to three dozen best-practice standards, covering areas like use of force and hiring. Should ICE and CBP come to Ohio, will Gov. DeWine insist that these federal agencies comply with these standards? They can easily be reviewed online under the program’s name.

• Poland

What happened to America? Most of us don’t condone killing innocent people, don’t condone billionaires getting tax breaks while the average American is struggling to pay for food and housing, don’t condone middle-aged men using underage girls for sex/entertainment, don’t take revenge on those who disagree with us, don’t celebrate co-workers who are unqualified for their jobs. So why are we tolerating this throughout our government? We have to use the ballot box to show who we really are.

• Youngstown

Saturday, District Judge Fred Biery signed an order “with a judicial finger in the constitutional dike”, denouncing Trump’s “ill-conceived … incompetently implemented … deportation quotas … traumatizing children,” citing Trump’s “ignorance of … the Declaration of Independence” and Jefferson’s warnings against “a would-be authoritarian king over our … nation.” His civics lesson on the Fourth Amendment noted “administrative warrants ” [from] the executive branch … to itself [don’t] pass probable cause muster … [It’s] … the fox guarding the henhouse … the Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.” That “trumps” Trump.

• Boardman

I wish you folks would stop whining about President Trump. You probably watch nothing but mainstream media.

• Canfield

Send ICE to Haiti. The violence against its citizens is out of control. They will be able to unleash all their aggressions against actual criminals, instead of killing the innocent in the U.S.

• Liberty

Do the Minneapolis protesters understand that when they go to a hotel and scream and yell, they are disturbing people who have nothing to do with ICE? These are not “peaceful protesters” — they are violent extremists. Destroying property is not legal protesting.

• Hubbard

Articles recently saying murders and crimes significantly reduced in 2025 from the past five years or so. Several reasons are suggested but I haven’t seen this one. In 2019 only 15 or so states had constitutional carry and many with severe restrictions on permits. Today 29 states allow carry and permits are MUST issue mostly now. ” An Armed society is a Polite society,” Heinlein, a famous author once said.

• Girard

I wonder if there will ever come a day when Kristi Noem realizes what she has done — lied about the killings of innocent people, dragged their names through the mud and further pained their grieving families, defended armed militia sent for revenge on those who disagree with the president, and did the bidding of a man who wants total obedience from his subjects. If that ever happens, I wouldn’t want to be her. How could anyone live with that?

• Youngstown

In Mahoning County, only 14.6% of documented animal cruelty cases result in prosecution. This is not a reflection of indifference, but of structural barriers that prevent cases from reaching court. Other Ohio counties have improved outcomes without changing the law — by improving evidence standards, coordinating investigators and prosecutors and recognizing cruelty as a public safety issue. Animals cannot testify. The justice system must speak for them — and doing so protects people too.

• Youngstown

With terrible cold and snow, schools have been closed. What I don’t understand is why administrators say that they’re contemplating whether to leave schools closed or open 2 hours late just because they need food pantries open for children during school and after school to take home. Food provided at schools is a tertiary benefit for students, which has been supplemented to anyone and everyone so that no one feels left out. A to-go is also an extremely big benefit. If this cannot be done for a few snow days, then it is what it is.

• Austintown

Why is the post office delivering mail so late? We used to almost always have the mail delivered by 1 p.m. Now 80% of the time we have it delivered after 6 p.m. The late delivery affects my brother and sister-in-law with even later delivery times. In the snow and ice, it makes it treacherous to go out in the dark to get your mail and to deliver it. Wouldn’t it be better to have mail every other day? How are they saving money on this?

• Poland

Star Parker lied at least six times in her recent article. Alex Pretti didn’t provoke his killing. He was killed trying to protect a protester. Progressives protested before the officer’s conviction for killing George Floyd, not afterward. And it was also about Brionna Taylor, Ferguson, New York, Tamir Rice and other killings not to create DEI. Iihan Omar’s progressive views don’t make her anti-American any more than anti-woke views make MAGA anti-American.

• Campbell

You hear about the gold. A king filled his room. As full as it could hold. To the top of the wall with every known shape of the stuff. To buy himself off his doom. But it wasn’t ransom enough. His captives accepted it all. But didn’t let go of the king. And his subjects wrung all they could. Out of the temple and palace and store. But when there was no more to bring. His captives convicted the king.

• Boardman

“Trump wants to ‘nationalize the voting,’ seeking to grab states’ power.” — Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post. Gee, Surprise, surprise …

• Boardman