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Pay more attention to civics, less to sports

DEAR EDITOR: Every American needs to turn off their sports channel and become aware of the losses of our democracy now in motion. The old adage: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” It is not wise to be consumed by one event. While we have become a nation with our noses glued to the sports channel, we have become connoisseurs of football, basketball, baseball, tennis, boxing and all the rest, that we have seen played over and over again thousands of times, while the government has changed around us. Government policies may be boring but they will affect your life in ...

Some things never change with Browns

DEAR EDITOR: An open letter to Jimmy and Dee Haslam: “There you go again.” Related to Art Modell? “The Move” in 2025 and “The Move” in 1995 are twins-in-time. Moving 13 miles to Brook Park is shorter than Modell’s midnight move of 376 miles to Baltimore, but when re-gutting a sport’s tradition, distance is irrelevant! A $100,000,000 Band-aid for a blood-letting will not staunch the hemorrhaging. Pilfering the team, Modell left the name. Squinting their eyes, fans see the real Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, cross-dressing as Ravens. 1964: Browns 27, ...

GOP changes its tune on guns, profanity

DEAR EDITOR: So Republicans are actually saying not to carry guns after refusing common-sense gun control for years? They also blame protesters in Minnesota because they confront law enforcement personnel, use violence and profanities and hinder proceedings? Sounds like what I saw at the U.S. Capitol not long ago. Republicans are upset at the use of profanity! Seriously! Remember at the Canfield Fair in 2024 when you couldn’t walk 10 feet without seeing “F— Biden” on hats, shirts, and flags? I guess those people were all bused-in paid troublemakers just trying to make ...

Oil, gas industries light fire for Ohio

DEAR EDITOR: Ohio’s natural gas and oil industries have continued to drive economic development in the Buckeye State. This means a flourishing job market and economy, funding for community infrastructure and energy reliability. Cleveland State University found that total upstream investments were up $615 million in the second half of 2024 when compared to the first half. These numbers reflect the continued growth of drilling activity, especially for oil-producing wells. Ohio’s shale-energy “drew” in approximately $3.5 billion in fresh capital between July and December ...

Sound off!

How much more can one mother possibly endure after the murder of her 12-year-old son, Gov. DeWine? Danny Lee Hill tortured Raymond Fife and listened to him cry for his mother with no remorse. You issued a reprieve, with no conscience, and a new 2029 execution date while us taxpayers pay for this ignorant murderer! God bless Miriam Fife and her family! Enough is enough!! It’s time to put an end to Danny Lee Hill! — Warren Between Trump’s corruptly handpicked DOJ, his army of masked MAGA militia pretending to be ICE law enforcement and endless attempts to stop the midterms and run ...

U.S. already has Greenland treaty

DEAR EDITOR: President Donald J. Trump’s infantile obsession with seizing Greenland is completely irrational. The existing 1949 treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark already provides for “...establishing and / or operating such defense areas [military bases]...(for) defense of Greenland and the rest of the North Atlantic Treaty area.” Further, the U.S. is specifically granted in the treaty full access to the air spaces and waters adjacent to Greenland, without compensation to Denmark. In the ensuing years, we have maintained military bases in Greenland as ...