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Expand Valley coverage in Tribune Chronicle

DEAR EDITOR: We have been customers of the Tribune Chronicle for many years, but I am planning a change. We live about 200 yards from Mahoning County near the Trumbull County line. I think that it is ridiculous that I must buy a Tribune to see the nearby Trumbull County schools’ scores—teams such as Newton Falls, Lordstown and McDonald. And I have to buy a Vindicator to see local school scores, such as Jackson-Milton, Canfield and Austintown Fitch. If you truly want to be the Valley’s newspaper, you should cover news from both areas. I have not run a newspaper, but I ...

Exclusive Citizenship Act will hurt more than it helps

DEAR EDITOR: Below is a letter I sent to U.S. Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted and to U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli. Sirs, In regards to your proposed Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, I would ask you to please stop this act from moving forward. A little story about my son Chris: Chris signed up to serve in the Army in September 2001 after our country was attacked. It was his senior year in Boardman High School. He was motivated by his patriotism and the only requirements were for him to graduate high school and to turn 18. He would become the 4th generation of our family to serve ...

America suffering from a collective religious hangover

DEAR EDITOR: Last weekend another column was printed about Jesus and “His soul-saving deliverance, His unending love, His miraculous power to transform lives,” and calling for us to be more “Christ-like.” Meanwhile, as writer and political observer Mary Geddry puts it, each day as of late seems to “arrive carrying a flamethrower.” Global conflicts erase innocent lives and real estate off the face of the earth not to mention the desecration of the planet itself. Where is the deliverance, the love and the power? While some would like to expunge the need for religion from ...

How and why the U.S. Congress went off the rails

DEAR EDITOR: So, you vote for your U.S. congressional representative, and you think they will vote in your best interests? Think again. Newly elected representatives first attend “Freshman Orientation for New Members of Congress.” On the average, each representative stands in for 760,000 Americans in their district. A LOT of people with different opinions on how their rep should be voting. And only a handful of that number actually elected them. After Freshman Orientation, they no longer vote your will; they vote as they’re told to vote by their “party leadership,” both ...

Sound off!

Sometime ago I was in a meeting of Catholic men. A place where God is to be praised and worshipped. During this time two of the men joked that their hope is for Donald Trump to be killed by the end of the year. I don’t know about anyone else but I find this abhorrent. This is not the Catholic faith I want any part of. To any of you who pray for this to happen, there is a special place in hell for you. Just as a side note, God again protected President Trump. — Canfield I am perplexed by the proposal to relocate the Poland Library from its present location. According to “PLYMC’s ...

Rich Lowry’s Artemis column was a misfire

DEAR EDITOR: Rich Lowry’s editorial regarding the triumph of the Artemis II mission reflects a shortsighted opinion of the U.S. space program. Artemis is surely an accomplishment — one of many at NASA — and, as Lowry suggests, it has its issues (no reusability, older technologies, cost, etc). Nevertheless, the U.S. Space program is one of the most successful and accomplished on earth. The press doesn’t cover unmanned missions but they make up some of the most exciting missions ever undertaken. I will try to cover some of these missions in “letters to the editor.” Consider ...