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Your grocery prices not going down? Fake news! Your 401k losing value? Hoax! Tariffs causing car prices to soar? Witch hunt! War in Ukraine still going on? Another lie! Pete Hegseth disclosing attack plans on an unsecured chat group? Never happened! Lost your job due to DOGE leader Musk? Don’t believe it! America is great again! Don’t believe what you see! Just continue to watch the Fox Entertainment, er News Channel. And listen to Trump! They’ll tell you the real truth! — Youngstown Nuke fans should hurry up and contact Pete Hegseth on TikTok to be sure he gets you on the ...

St. Pat parishioners should move forward

DEAR EDITOR: I am writing this letter as a parishioner at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Hubbard. No reminder is needed to recall how we all suffered through the pandemic. In many places, religious events, including in-person worship services, were banned. And then St. Pat’s lost its church due to a significant fire in January 2021. For the next 38 months we met as a congregation in our Parish Center building, truly a gymnasium. But our congregation remained vibrant, alive and strong. Our Parish is not its building, it is its good and faithful people. We all rejoiced when our ...

Where are the Democrats’ ideas?

DEAR EDITOR: The country is $37 trillion in debt and politicians of both parties have talked about the deficit since President Ronald Reagan decades ago but nothing has ever been done. While anybody in congress could have started changing things nobody did. Now that somebody has been elected to do something, everybody is trying to block somebody’s efforts. It is long past time that our elected officials work for the common good of everybody and join with somebody who is finally doing something to make the deficit go away. If everybody (Democrats) doesn’t like what somebody ...

Medical research is worth the cost

DEAR EDITOR: I found Vaughn Smider’s article in The Vindicator very interesting, but at the same time very upsetting. Vaughn Smider is a former Jackson-Milton graduate who now does biomedical research. His laboratory studies antibodies which are the molecules in our blood that fight infection. He does research for all diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, cancer and many more. His research is funded by NIH, which is now being taken away by DOGE. I have a relative who is being treated for cancer every four weeks with an antibody that attacks the cancer ...

Slice some salami instead of benefits

DEAR EDITOR: Just over a week ago, I attended the demonstration against Mike Rulli at his Canfield office location. There was a decent turnout despite being rather blustery. And there were a lot of great signs, such as, “Slice Salami — Not Benefits!” It was noisy, with cars enthusiastically honking their support. Now comes the hard part. There were no union members there, just former member retirees. And, other than the union staff guy, there was no one there under the age of 50. OK, here it comes … “I had to work.” Come on, people. The demonstration was at noon and ...

Trump covering Hegseth’s rear end

DEAR EDITOR: Is there no low this Trump administration will sink into to cover their backside? No former, retired or active duty military would believe the bold-faced lies that attack plans can be transmitted over unprotected signal lines. The arrogance and stupidity of the Trump cabinet who follows an untreated alcoholic Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will cause harm and death to those serving their country out of patriotism. Those of us veterans who have served our country know Pete Hegseth achieved the lowest field grade officer rank of Major. Other than his big mouth and ...