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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are running content very harmful to children. So said a jury in New Mexico that just slapped their owner, Meta, with a $375 million fine. The state accused the company of spreading pornographic images and helping adults contact vulnerable children. Meta faces thousands of suits, but in a landmark case decided in California on Wednesday, the company was told to pay 20-year-old plaintiff Kaley G.M. $4.2 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages. Kaley blamed its products on a variety of mental health issues, including depression and dangerous ...

Trump’s policies have us headed to the poor house

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: On the March 19 opinion page, Star Parker warns against complaining about the price of gas. On the opposite page is the headline “US national debt surges past $39 trillion just weeks into war.” On the front page, school workers need more money and Page 3 laments Trumbull County seeking funds to replace a bridge! Trump’s leadership is putting us all in the poor house! Did I mention the cost of groceries or housing? STEVE SOLAK Youngstow

Furor over voter ID is much ado about nothing

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: What is wrong with Democrats? Anyone who moves to a different city, county, state or district — not just veterans — has to register to vote with ID. If you lose any personal documents, you CAN get new ones. What is the big deal when you get married, you get a card from the courthouse with your married name on it, I did. As for people of color, it is no different. When you see a doctor, register into a hospital, license plates, stickers for a car, a new driver’s license, proof of car insurance, rent a car, rent an apartment, get subsidized housing, or apply for ...

Learning the truth about employee-paid health care

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: You’re a locally important civic leader with formal authority in your organization and significant influence outside of it. You see the rescission of Obamacare for millions of Americans as a complicating factor with unknown consequences for your thinking about health care. How should you think? What should you and your colleagues in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys’ civic leadership do? Consider this. Approach your colleagues and ask for their public support in proposing the Chief Actuary in the Health Care Financing Administration conduct an investigation into ...

YSU should practice due diligence as it expands

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: I am cautiously optimistic about YSU opening a satellite campus in Steubenville. Four members of my family are YSU graduates with six degrees in widely varied fields of study. We all faced challenges, but on-campus support services and dedicated faculty who truly wanted their students to succeed helped us complete our degrees and move into fulfilling careers. Our youngest child chose a program that is not available at YSU but could be completed at Kent State East Liverpool. Being neurodivergent, she was concerned about entering college, but hard work and determination ...

Stuck with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presidency

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: Mr. Donald Trump ran as Dr. Jekyll and morphed into a Mr. Hyde. We’ve been forewarned. In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave us a clue of what might come. Again in 2024, Kamala Harris predicted the outcome if Mr. Trump became president. Nevertheless, our testosterone-fueled nation disagreed. “What the heck do they know? They’re only women; their jobs are in the kitchen.” Today’s battle cry from our president is “Macho, Macho, Macho,” as well as the echoes of the Republican Party on the brink of insanity. Our president, Mr. Fabulous, introduced the so-called ...