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Letters to the Editor

Rulli should not have hired Peppel

DEAR EDITOR: I am writing to express my deep concern regarding U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli’s (R-Salem) decision to hire Mike Peppel as the congressman’s new communications director. Peppel set up a charity, “Ohio Clean Water Fund” to raise funds for East Palestine residents affected by ...

Sound off! Readers share their thoughts

As a subscriber and reader of your newspaper for over 50 years, I really appreciated your Feb. 12 column by editor Ed Puskas. I will follow your information and analytical recommendation, and I sincerely hope that others will do the same, as you stated. Everyone must take a deep breath. — ...

Donald Trump needs to be impeached

DEAR EDITOR: The total lack of empathy shown by 47 as he turned a sympathy message to families of 67 people grieving loved ones lost in the DC air crash into a MAGA rant against DEI is one of the more disgusting recent examples of his narcissistic character. Angered by a press question as to ...

Distance yourselves from the bully

DEAR EDITOR: We all knew one growing up. The playground bully. We saw him pick on smaller kids after school or at recess. We saw him pull on girls’ ponytails. We saw him lift a pack of chewing gum at the drugstore. We saw him drinking beer behind the movie theater. He lied to our teachers. ...

Education can take you anywhere

DEAR EDITOR: Education is the key to all doors of opportunities, and forms the map to guide us through the maze of roads in our lives. It frees us from poverty, if we are poor, and gives us better insight and appreciation, if we were born rich. Education has no boundaries and no expiration ...

Dictator for just a day? That’s not very likely

DEAR EDITOR: As a veteran I must speak out against oligarchy, totalitarianism, tyranny, megalomania, insanity, and yes the cowards in my former political party. I plead to Congress and USSC Justices to stop the insanity of implementing Canadian tariffs. There may be a justification for ...