DEAR EDITOR: I see where the unused funds GIVEN to the Haslams will never have to be paid back to our state. Wouldn’t it have been nice to use the money for the education of children? The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled the State Legislature had to properly fund our schools. Four times up to 2002. Now they come up with a plan to give money away. They should ALL be removed from the Statehouse. HAROLD J. WILSON Austintown
DEAR EDITOR: This letter is intended to address the disgraceful and un-Christian treatment of our immigrants. ICE was assigned to gather up the hardened criminals — murderers, drug dealers, etc. In an attempt to reach a quota of deportations mandated by those in power, many law-abiding, hard-working families are being victimized. Some are legal citizens or in the process of becoming legal citizens. Can you for a moment imagine how scary it is for them to go to their jobs, pick their kids up from school or call for help in an emergency? They are living in a self-imposed prison because ...
DEAR EDITOR: As a retired military man, I was very dismayed at all the No Kings demonstrations on June 14 (Flag Day). The celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday was initiated during the Biden administration. Whether they would have had a parade is unknown. It was a celebration for all the men and women who sacrificed years of family separations, careers and went to war to defend us from socialism and communism (which seems acceptable today) and defend our Constitution. Many protested because it was also Trump’s birthday. There were many others who had birthdays on June 14. ...
DEAR EDITOR: U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli’s “Faith and Defiance Day” resolution manages to be both pandering and insulting at once. Pandering, because it’s simply one more example of a Republican officeholder bending over backwards to offer hyperbolic praise in order to both gain the fleeting attention of the president and also assuage his fragile ego. While the assassination attempt in Butler *could have* been far more tragic, can Rep. Rulli stop for a second and recognize that a man getting grazed on the tip of his ear is not exactly “one or two (of the) events in your life ...
DEAR EDITOR: On July 2, The Vindicator published an article by David Skolnick titled: “DeWine vetoes 67 budget items.” This extensive article disingenuously alludes to DeWine’s line-item veto of 67 items in the Ohio budget, recently passed by the radical right wing-dominated Legislature. The article sought out and got responses from the local Republican legislators: State Rep. David Thomas (Jefferson), State Rep. Tex (formally known as Austin) Fischer (Boardman); State Sen. Al Cutrona (Canfield), and State Sen. Sandra O’Brien (Lenox). All four railed against DeWine’s ...
DEAR EDITOR: Your July 9 article describing the refusal of entry to the U.S. of a musician to perform here locally raised several disturbing questions. Of course, there is a disparity of the organizer claiming the musician “carried documentation proving the non-commercial nature of his performances” and the Border Patrol claiming the performer “did not have the appropriate employment-based visa to perform multiple events as a professional musician.” It doesn’t matter which documentation claim is the most accurate or the most applicable under the law. What matters is that the ...