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The South will rise again thanks to gerrymandering DEAR EDITOR: With the help of the Jim Crow cancers, racist Ku Klux Klan and a Republican Bush-Trump Supreme Court decision that gutted the American Voting Rights Act, mass gerrymandering across the Southern states and no Democratic representation in the state of Tennessee, the Confederate states will rise again with white, black, Latino and Asian slaves — “America in reverse.” The Republican multibillionaire Trump administration is a divider, not an American unifier. Remember this when you vote in the 2026 midterms and the ...

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I’m struck by the similarities of the last days of the Nazi regime in April 1945 to the faltering Iranian government. Like Germany, Iran is controlled by a small, deadly group of fanatics, preserving their grip on power at any cost. Civilian dissent is ruthlessly crushed, and the country is kept in a perpetual news blackout. People are scooped on any pretext and just hung from a crane — or worse. The big difference from World War II Germany is the enabling power of the Internet to continually pipe out rhetoric and threats to every media outlet in the world. I have to wonder what ...

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Public library board should review costs DEAR EDITOR: I’m finding it difficult to believe you gave an orchid to the Library Board Trustees for its decision to replace the Poland Library building. You stated that this was a fiscally responsible decision. This is in direct opposition to what you reported in your article on the library board meeting. You reported that Ted Downie, a local contractor that has built many local business’ buildings and has an outstanding reputation, pointed out that the estimates for the repair of the existing buildings and constructing a new building ...

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I would try to buy a ticket to Trump’s rose garden fight only if it featured his son-in-law and daughter vs Junior and Eric. Winners will split the golden statue of the Don, and losers must have him to dinner in their homes every Christmas or Hanukkah. — Canfield Get it right people, it’s TRUMP IS DERANGED SYNDROME, not Trump derangement syndrome!! — Struthers Can we have a cease and desist order on the political ads? Give us a break. I’m not interested in Vivek or Sherrod at this point in the election cycle. Some countries allow campaigning only for a limited time before ...

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Administration makes us wonder DEAR EDITOR: We are all familiar with the line, “Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner still wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” but many do not realize that that famous line in our national anthem is actually a question. Considering the destructive and incompetent decisions being made by our administration and the cowardly silence of our Republican representatives, it appears that the answer to that question is “NO.” THOMAS BRENT Struthers Community School nearing reality DEAR EDITOR While driving down South ...

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I waited until after the May 5 elections before submitting this. My question is this. How is it that Mark Hanni was not ticketed for crashing his Cadillac through an Arby’s restaurant window? Supposedly he was sitting in his car with the engine running with his foot on the brake with the car in drive. His carelessness and lack of common sense caused significant damage to the building. More importantly, someone could have been seriously hurt! An investigation should be launched into why he wasn’t issued a citation. — Canfield State Sen. Al Cutrona had to intervene to help ...