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I take issue with a Sound Off last weekend. I was admitted to Emergency at St Joe’s recently with minor auto accident injuries. I was treated very well even though I ended up in the hall while in emergency due to extreme overcrowding. The hospital was 100% occupied. I remained in emergency until a room opened up. I received a pacemaker and was treated well and courteously the entire time by all, even though they were short-staffed. The food was excellent too. Thank you St. Joe’s staff! — Cortland It was just announced that the White House is holding Medicaid benefits from both ...

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Chief actuary study best medicine for U.S. healthcare DEAR EDITOR: Professor Victor Davis Hanson’s “New socialists are elite, ungrateful and toxic” is worth reading, but his thought that the new Jacobins are talking wildly about Medicare for all deserves a quick reply. Medicare for all and variations of that phrase at state levels are place mat rhetoric for virtue-signaling politicians who want to demonstrate their hearts are in the right place. That’s all. The phrase has only bumper-sticker value, and the clunky accompanying legislation is always dead on arrival. The ...

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Remember where we started 250 years ago DEAR EDITOR: After 250 years, what is your contribution? Let me ask, how old are you? When is your next birthday? Ask yourself, “Looking back across all my birthdays, what have I accomplished?” Our country has 250 birthdays to look back on. Wow … 250 years! How many books would be needed to list every single accomplishment made by our country? How many people have made up the total population of this special land since its very beginning? Whatever number is the answer, each person who has ever lived or is living in our country has ...

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Parents in the Brentwood Boulevard area of Niles have no concern with their young kids riding their bikes in the middle of the road. People drive out of control in this area speeding, and law enforcement does nothing. These kids swerve in and out of driveways and do not look for cars. It is going to happen, then parents will be screaming at the drivers. They need to be teaching their kids the proper way to ride. — Niles Unfortunately, former Ohio Health Director Dr. Amy Acton must set up a rumor control page on her website, just like FEMA did during Hurricane Helene to dispel all ...

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Is Islam really a religion of peace? DEAR EDITOR: Is Islam a religion of peace, as the media often claims, or is it also a political system that can be used to challenge or overtake an existing free and open society? If Islam is truly a peaceful religion, why do some Islamist extremists promote terrorist activity, and why do Muslim leaders fail to condemn such activity publicly and forcefully when it occurs in our country and around the world? How many Catholics or Christians in the past 50 to 100 years have bombed, destroyed, or killed large numbers of people in the name of Jesus ...

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There are 1,300-1,500 babies born to illegals in Springfield, Ohio. Now eligible for Trump Accounts. End birthright citizenship or we will have many more babies there. Ohio taxpayers deserve the same benefits as the illegals. DeWine is lying when he says that they are helping the Ohio economy. They are taking more than giving. — Hubbard In 1898, President McKinley annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii, at that time a republic. The citizens had no vote! McKinley was from Niles. It rubbed off on Niles, which doesn’t ask the citizens of a township if they want to be part of the city. They ...