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Deer won’t starve without hunters

DEAR EDITOR: To the woman in SoundOff that wrote last week saying that if we stop the slaughter of the deer in Mill Creek Park they will die of starvation and that is a terrible death. I see why you didn’t want to put your name in! So, it’s more calming to be hit by an arrow, run for your life, maybe into traffic, or lie in the woods dying and suffering? These old hen stories are put out by most people that want to hunt. It’s their excuse for hunting. You make no sense, you are saying the deer have to die, that it’s better they get their head blown off than to go hungry. Lady, ...

Star Parker’s ACA column full of errors

DEAR EDITOR: Star Parker’s “Let’s fix our broken health care system” is filled with inaccurate and misleading information. In her effort to make the ACA appear less important than it is, she erroneously states that “Obamacare deliver[s] health care to 7% of Americans.” A cursory Google search shows that ACA enrollment is nearly double that, at over 13% — 45+ million Americans. She goes on to make per capita expenditure comparisons between the U.S. system and the health care systems of other countries without considering the vast differences between those systems. ...

No need for bishop’s heavy-handed decree

DEAR EDITOR: This is re: the Diocese decree banning funeral visitation on church property. How uncaring, how unfeeling, how out-of-touch this bishop is! Does this decree apply to priests and nuns, too? Remember who built these churches and who pays to maintain and keep them running. Did anyone even bother to consult the laity as to their needs? No! It was decided by money-hungry funeral directors (what a conflict of interest) and priests who like more free time. I am not talking about priests serving four or five parishes who kill themselves trying to keep this Diocese going; they ...

May the force be with you in Columbiana

DEAR EDITOR: Columbiana County political travesties continue, led by none other than the Candyman, aka the Dark Lord of Salem. The Dark Lord of Salem in this past general election cycle reached into races long declared off radar. Historically, county, state, and national were races of focus, Township and school boards were insignificant. This time select school board and township races were targeted for precarious reasons. Not surprisingly, the Salem City races were front and center in the Dark Lord’s propaganda, sleight of hand mailers and social media posts. Desperate attempts ...

End the apartheid of Christmas conifers

DEAR EDITOR: Owning a Christmas tree is unanimously recognized as very pleasant and delightful; what is neither pleasant nor delightful is the sectarian violence between types of conifers (cone-bearing trees) that is ubiquitous at this time of year. I wish I could claim that I have always been innocent in this dreadful conflict, but only until recently have I also been to blame for the unfortunate circumstances surrounding false superiority of classes of conifers. While my ways have been mended my epiphany did not come to me in a Dickensian three spirits sort of way, rather, only after ...

Sound off!

Killing people, destroying drug transports, threatening a foreign dictator, where drugs are going all mean nothing to 47. They just distract from his true concern, which is a river of cash flow not reaching his pocket. Maybe his pardon of a convicted head of a huge narcotics cartel will ease his anxiety. — Canfield Why a global search to replace Louis A. Zona? He was an art teacher in New Castle before he became an excellent director of the “American Art Institute” founded by local businessman Joseph Butler. The Butler has become world- renowned using local people. I say keep it ...