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An inside look at what Mike Hovis is all about DEAR EDITOR: Let me tell you a little about who we are. I grew up as a Teamster’s daughter. Michael grew up as a steelworker’s son. Our parents worked hard just to make ends meet. We weren’t handed anything. We struggled. We did without. We learned not to ask for what wasn’t ours. We learned that if you wanted something, you worked for it. So please … don’t judge us without knowing our story. We know what it’s like to start at the bottom. We know what it means to worry about paying bills, to sacrifice, and to ...

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DJT has many forks in the road concerning his Iranian war. He continues to take the wrong ones. Secretary of War Pete (Hegseth), along with DJT, keeps wasting billions of dollars, killing our soldiers and alienating our global allies. His bombing of bridges and the desalinating plants will bring war crime penalties. I hope they end up in the Hague. Why do we continue to get involved in wars? Is it too much testosterone? We need more women in government decision-making. — Southington Our leader in Washington has quite the conundrum. Should he follow orders from Saudi Arabia and stop ...

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Support Amy Action in Ohio governor’s race DEAR EDITOR: Ohioans met Dr. Amy Acton during the COVID crisis, when she appeared regularly with Gov. Mike DeWine during his televised daily reports. She had the calm, reassuring presence of someone who does not get befuddled by problems. She knows how to figure things out. One of her primary focuses, in her bid to succeed DeWine, is her promise to families that she will return the economy to normal. Her ideas will put money back in our pockets again. She has suggested a working families tax cut that will benefit parents who are working in ...

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This administration wants the info on all voters from the blue states. Trump wants our ER hospital visit records. Hegseth wants the testosterone levels of all military personnel checked. These are invasions of privacy. Does anyone realize there are HIPAA laws? Or are laws becoming obsolete in this administration? — Liberty The TV ads butchering Amy Acton’s reputation do indeed say “not authorized by any candidate”. So, who indeed pays for them? Answer: a Super PAC that describes its “sole mission as electing Ramaswamy governor”. Who is part of that Super PAC ? Elon Musk ...

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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 ...