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Mother struggles with pain of losing a child

DEAR EDITOR: June 24 was the most devastating, horrific time in my life! I lost my baby girl to cancer. She had fought it for years until she could fight no more! She was 46. I have four daughters, and I always thought that I would go before any of them. But it was not so. It wasn’t in God’s plan. Since the death of my baby girl, I have not slept a full night. I hardly eat anything, I move around as if I am a robot doing what I must do, to maintain my daily life. People ask me out of concern, “How do you feel?” I can’t describe this pain and hurt. It is indescribable! It ...

Take a closer look at Mike DeWine’s vetoes

DEAR EDITOR: On July 2, The Vindicator published an article by David Skolnick titled: “DeWine vetoes 67 budget items.” This extensive article disingenuously alludes to DeWine’s line-item veto of 67 items in the Ohio budget, recently passed by the radical right wing-dominated Legislature. The article sought out and got responses from the local Republican legislators: State Rep. David Thomas (Jefferson), State Rep. Tex (formally known as Austin) Fischer (Boardman); State Sen. Al Cutrona (Canfield), and State Sen. Sandra O’Brien (Lenox). All four railed against DeWine’s ...

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has now come to life

DEAR EDITOR: Your July 9 article describing the refusal of entry to the U.S. of a musician to perform here locally raised several disturbing questions. Of course, there is a disparity of the organizer claiming the musician “carried documentation proving the non-commercial nature of his performances” and the Border Patrol claiming the performer “did not have the appropriate employment-based visa to perform multiple events as a professional musician.” It doesn’t matter which documentation claim is the most accurate or the most applicable under the law. What matters is that ...

Sound off!

Ralph Infante has been incarcerated for about seven years. It’s time we all: Give him a break. Give him a break. Break him off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! — Cortland Yet another fight at the Trumbull County Fair! How sad that fairgoers can no longer enjoy fun-tilled family activities without hoodlums disrupting those activities and creating an atmosphere of fear and chaos. The juvenile girl who hit a police horse should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of her age. She assaulted a member of the police force. If it would help, prosecute ...

Rulli’s resolution both pandering, insulting

DEAR EDITOR: U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli’s “Faith and Defiance Day” resolution manages to be both pandering and insulting at once. Pandering, because it’s simply one more example of a Republican officeholder bending over backwards to offer hyperbolic praise in order to both gain the fleeting attention of the president and also assuage his fragile ego. While the assassination attempt in Butler *could have* been far more tragic, can Rep. Rulli stop for a second and recognize that a man getting grazed on the tip of his ear is not exactly “one or two (of the) events in your life ...

Homeowners, landlords should be responsible

DEAR EDITOR: I want to applaud you! To whomever wrote the “onion” article about the neighborhoods in Girard where the people who do not take care of their properties. It not only exists in Girard, but in Niles and probably in Warren, too. I have asked the mayor of Niles and the housing inspector and the councilmen to get out of their “comfort zones” (offices) and actually go out into the neighborhoods they represent and check out the houses with trash around them, cars that do not work, boats in driveways that the only water they have seen is rain water for over nine years, ...