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I am a proud parent of a child with a disability. What this administration is doing to this population is a disgrace. Whether you voted for Trump or not, as a parent of a child with a disability you should be outraged, too. Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP benefits have been dramatically cut. Now, the Education Department fired all employees of the Special Education Department, having a negative effect on our children to get an equal education. This fits right into Trump’s record of showing little regard for people with disabilities. — Poland The entire Trump campaign and ...

Congress is shirking its responsibility to us

DEAR EDITOR: When Congress fails to fund the government (your government, the one you pay plentiful taxes to keep running) it’s not just gridlock. It’s a shameful collapse of responsibility. Federal employees across the country have been sent home without pay or ordered to keep working for free until elected officials remember how to govern. These people are your neighbors. The people who run our federal prisons, inspect our food, maintain our parks, process Social Security and veterans’ benefits and keep planes safely in the air. They’re ordinary Americans doing essential ...

Is anyone paying attention to the debt?

DEAR EDITOR: It is truly sad that Congress and our presidents are more concerned about passing a budget without reducing our national debt. Each American’s share of our $37 trillion dollar debt is over $110,000. We owe $2.6 billion each day in interest alone and much of the debt we owe is to countries like Japan, United Kingdom, China and Canada. It is projected that we will owe $40-47 trillion in five years. Is this the legacy we want to leave those that come after us? Congress and our presidents should take heed from past presidents. George Washington cautioned against ...

When will Judge Napolitano get it right?

DEAR EDITOR: Judge Andrew Napolitano’s weekly (“weakly”) argued opinion in The Vindicator’s Sept. 27-28 edition again presented an articulation of erroneous procedural facts and substantive mischaracterization of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a recent Immigration case. He correctly characterizes the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to prohibit an unreasonable governmental search of a person’s papers, but accuracy ends there. First: He demonstrates lack of understanding of the case he apparently references (Noem vs Perdomo) decided by the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Missed opportunity for Youngstown

DEAR EDITOR: I attended the 51st annual Peace Race on Sunday morning. I was not a runner, but rather a spectator supporting friends. I was shocked to see that none of the restaurants opened early. There were a lot of people, including myself, walking from restaurant to restaurant to see if they were open (around 11 a.m.). Many folks left instead of eating downtown. I stayed and waited for them to open in order to help downtown businesses. The purpose of this message is not to be a problem identifier, but rather a problem solver. Maybe there could be a solution for next year. I am ...

Are you feeling the effects yet?

DEAR EDITOR: Now that enough MAGAites in red states are learning the cost of Trump’s Big Beautiful tax bill, they realize they have stepped in a Magnificent Meadow Muffin so malodorous as to shutter Congress with disgust. Ditto, the “clean” CR. Playing their double-down tactic for bad ideas e.g. 2016 and 2024, MAGA points fingers to deflect attention, threatens bogus lawsuits, ignores due process, cuts or eliminates health care and helps 47 build his masked, lawless ICE army with $74 billion of your tax dollars. ICE and Kristi Noem do the illegal and unnecessary to make armed ...