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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 ...

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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 ...

Today’s party is not filled with your dad’s Democrats

DEAR EDITOR: Who are you? Do you identify as a Democrat from days gone by or do you identify with the new Socialists saying they are Democrats? I have been registered as a Democrat for over 60 years, but since the Biden administration created all the problems Congress is now attempting to correct, I have been trying to choose issues-only ballots in the primaries. If the Democratic Party leaders are not supporting socialist ideas, then why haven’t they confronted AOC, Bernie Sanders, Mamdani and others promoting socialism, and said either abide by our standards or you will no ...

Thank you to two Hubbard EMTs for their assistance

DEAR EDITOR: Thanks to Joint Eagle Fire District EMTs Jeremy and McKenzie, both of whom were very compassionate and professional in responding to my need for help recently. As a Hubbard city taxpayer, I finally “benefitted” from the fire levy. I make no apologies to Chief Stanish, whom I’ve pestered the past several years with visits and notes to the station, about emergency runs to Interstate 80, where the recovery of a crash victim’s billing costs may be a pipe dream. JOHN BASSETTI Hubbard

RFK Jr. is most definitely the right man for the job

DEAR EDITOR: This is in rebuttal to a letter to the editor titled “RFK Jr. one of Trump’s biggest mistakes.” I couldn’t disagree more. The writer parroted many misconceptions and false information that we’ve been fed ad nauseam. Because the writer along with the majority of people have no idea that science, medicine and public health, up until this point, have been completely captured by the pharmaceutical industry. I’ve written many letters to the editor of this paper about the autism epidemic. It’s personal, as I have a soon-to-be 30-year-old nonspeaking epileptic ...

The simple truth is that Ohioans are fat

DEAR EDITOR: Regarding the editorial, “Ohio and WV face serious health issues.” You don’t need extensive studies to know one thing — Ohioans are fat. After living elsewhere for many years we moved back to Youngstown and immediately noticed that Ohio had serious health problems. Besides the weight issues many people here still smoke. It is easy to blame it on bad weather but there is more to it than that. There may be contributing factors like all the abandoned natural gas wells that dot the landscape or contaminated drinking water. Also, food is tasty and cheap! ...