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Learning the truth about employee-paid health care

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 ...

Colorectal cancer screenings can save lives

DEAR EDITOR: Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers in the United States, yet it is highly preventable and treatable when detected early. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 153,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year, and over 52,000 will lose their lives. When men and women are combined, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death nationwide. Alarmingly, it is now the leading cause of cancer death among adults under age 50. Colorectal cancer often develops silently. Many individuals feel completely ...

Trump supporters are getting what they deserve

DEAR EDITOR: Trump has lost working-class white voters. There are always enough brain-dead voters to keep his dictatorship going if enough voter suppression happens, and it will happen in the fascist state. It’s endlessly impossible to me that people deny the political realities of all this. And I’m talking about the people on this side of the fence who won’t accept the reality that this is bad politics. They’re still OK with becoming a fascist nation; they just wish it was more affordable. They enjoyed the hell out of tearing up our government institutions and national ...

Help to preserve the history of Social Security

DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump doesn’t believe in Social Security nor care about what it means to millions of Americans. He showed that when he had Elon Musk spending 2025 taking a figurative wrecking ball to the Social Security Administration. He’d destroy it if he could. So, it’s no wonder he wants to erase its history. The Wilbur Cohen Federal Building was built to be the Social Security Administration’s headquarters and was filled with art to inspire all who entered it. The most famous piece, “The Meaning of Social Security,” depicts the program’s many benefits, ...

The real cost of Trump’s war for Americans

DEAR EDITOR: Trump attacks Iran, you pay. A $100,000 retirement fund invested to mirror the S&P 500 has lost $5,000 since Trump’s attack. If you had $200,000 invested you’ve lost $10,000 ... in 3 weeks. But wait, there’s more. The Pentagon wants a fresh $200 BILLION to keep fighting Trump’s war. That’s money you’ll be paying. Hold on, we’re not finished. Gas is up 30+%. So if you drive 1,000 miles a month and buy 30 gallons of gas, that’s about $30 more a month or $360 a year — more if you drive more or get under 33 miles per gallon. BILL ADAMS Austintown

Sound off!

Rumor has it Liberty trustee and Judge candidate Devon Stanley does not live in Liberty Township. Enough of the theft from the residents of Liberty Township. How can this guy be trusted as a judge? Voter Beware. — Warren Many white Americans want to kill Muslims. Muslims are “too strange, not Christian, unwilling to assimilate.” They won’t just lie there and let their children be murdered by foreign bombs. Islam itself isn’t evil. What’s evil is another American president using fake intelligence as an excuse to deploy bombs, waging an immoral war to distract us from his ...