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Ohio values demand that we defend USAID

DEAR EDITOR: If there’s one thing Ohioans know, it’s loyalty, hard work, and looking out for our neighbors. We’re a state built on industry, farming, and community — when someone’s in trouble, we step up. That’s why it’s baffling that our politicians are rolling over while Elon Musk spreads lies to dismantle USAID, one of the most efficient, life-saving agencies in our government. For more than 60 years, USAID’s civil servants and foreign service officers have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, not because they had a political agenda, but ...

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In my perfect justice system my cops will arrest you, my investigators will investigate you, my judges will hear my lawyers prosecute you and you will be convicted unless judge and jury actually follow laws I have yet to rewrite. You will be imprisoned in another country where I pay your keep (with your taxes) and where you will have no right to appeal or to have visitors. Guess who I am. If you can’t, your red ball cap may be so tight it’s interfering with your thought processes. Everyone else, raise your voice, cast your ballot. — Canfield When there is no money left for ...

Lots to enjoy in The Vindicator

DEAR EDITOR: As a Vindicator subscriber for decades, I find it a great source for national and local news. Another great read is Farm and Dairy, printed in nearby Salem since 1914. Pick up a copy at newsstands if you are interested in how agriculture affects all of us. You will learn how the new administration’s policies affect farmers and the food on your table, as well as school lunches and food stamps. There are also many other (and often amusing) articles, a full page or recipes, and human interest stories — one such story was of neighbors, friends and strangers pulling ...

A solution that is in search of a problem

DEAR EDITOR: Like all members of Congress last week, no doubt Mike Rulli was flooded with calls pleading with him to do something to stop Elon Musk and Donald Trump from tearing apart our country’s institutions. In response, Reps. Rulli and Dave Joyce came up with a bill to fix a problem so obscure that few have ever heard of it, to keep a Chinese club out of public schools. I respond with the following points: 1. China doesn’t have to infiltrate our schools for information. It need only ask its friend Musk, whose gang of questionable young marauders took control of all the ...

Will a real leader please stand up?

DEAR EDITOR: From cowboys and Indians to corruptible sexual orientation immorality to cozying up with money gamers, Mike Rulli is posing as a congressman of the 6th District of Ohio. Rulli has gone from grocery produce to primary sponsor of Ohio Senate Bill 119 to backyard cowboys and Indians to money games in East Palestine. While still an Ohio senator, Rulli and his political party advancer from Columbiana County called everyone else a liar about his sponsorship of Senate Bill 119, which had at its core, immorality. Rulli and his promoter continue to deny and evade the fact that ...

‘You’re fired’ is no joke for most of us

DEAR EDITOR: I have never understood how someone who used the phrase “you’re fired” as a cheap punchline on TV came to be accepted as a champion of working folk. Getting fired is a life-changing experience — and not in a good way for most people. Nonetheless, “Celebrity Apprentice” star Donald Trump rode “you’re fired” to new visibility, and eventually, the presidency. And now, after virtually buying victory for Trump with a late-campaign infusion of $288 million, celebrity billionaire Elon Musk has become his real-life apprentice. And Musk has shown ...