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Local favorite is now commercialized

DEAR EDITOR: Growing up in Canfield, White House Fruit Farm was a local favorite. My first job, weekends out with family and friends. Lots of good memories. I am sad to observe it has turned so commercial as evidenced with the latest and greatest, “Walk in the Tulips.” I was all for this, until I looked online and realized that it was taken by reservations, for $15 a person. My heart dropped. For that price I could take a family of four to a Scrappers baseball game or a movie and still have money in my pocket. And those venues would last two to three hours. Seriously, how ...

We can’t let FEMA be disbanded

DEAR EDITOR: The Federal Emergency Management Agency organizes and funds support for communities hit by natural disasters. That’s become even more important with climate change. True to Project 2025, Trump is threatening to destroy the agency, and he’s used disaster relief as a political weapon. Trump says states should cover the costs of emergency management within their borders with an unspecified amount of reimbursement from Washington. He’s signed an executive order directing states and localities to do more, and his Secretary of Homeland Security told a cabinet meeting ...

Are you angry yet? You should be

DEAR EDITOR: It’s time to be angry that the president wants to shrink government. It sounded good to President Trump’s supporters when he was on the campaign trail. But it’s not so great. We have long been the richest nation on Earth. At the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, our GDP totaled about $27 trillion. China, ranking second, had about $17 trillion. The International Monetary Fund stated that the USA’s economy led the world, according to the Wall Street Journal, and our success helped other countries to become financially sounder. The GDP is the total money that ...

Mothers are special every single day

DEAR EDITOR: To be a Mother is the most honorable, wonderful cherished position a woman can hold. It is a Gift from God. A Mother gives of herself to her children. She sacrifices, goes without for her child, yet she never complains. She may not wear the best of clothes, yet she always makes sure that her children look presentable. A Mother’s love has no bounds. A Mother instills in her children “right from wrong.” She is her children’s biggest cheerleader. and advocate. A Mother guides her children with a “velvet glove,” yet that same “velvet glove” can quickly ...

We’ve somehow found ourselves in ‘1984’

DEAR EDITOR: George Orwell warns us in his novel, “1984,” “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” The Trump regime appears determined to fulfill this dystopian prophecy with an executive order that seeks to remove “improper ideology” from revered cultural institutions. The targets of his executive order Include not only the Smithsonian Museu Focus has been placed upon the National Museum of African American History and Culture suggesting that history is up for the interpretation of the present regime. Anti-DEI ...

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47 has plans to alter the days we honor our veterans, I believe to honor himself. He who never served, who wouldn’t risk mussing his hair to visit graves of heroes in Europe, who was displeased on seeing wounded vets on stage with him, who called vets ‘suckers’ for sacrificing themselves, will now parade like the Dear Leader he wants to be even as he steals vets’ benefits. I hope he gets all the single-digit-salutes he deserves. — Canfield Psycho Liar Felon Trump and Just Dumb Vance don’t know what they are talking about, Biden left the idiots with a great economy, good ...