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We keep hearing that the U.S. needs illegal immigrants, mostly from Democrats, to do jobs like picking crops. Do you know who else said this? Slave owners! — Hubbard So, Insight and the Trumbull County Commissioners think that Trumbull Regional Hospital can re-open. Can they be serious? The hospital has been closed for months; physicians and nurses have left — either for greener pastures or other local jobs; most other personnel and support staff have gone elsewhere; equipment has been removed or has been unused for months. Even if it does reopen, who would come to this location ...

The military parade was Trump’s doing

DEAR EDITOR: A recent Sound Off writer from Hubbard admonished prior contributors who complained about the military parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army, which took place on the president’s birthday. “Hubbard” urged those contributors to “do your research” and then asserted, “... this parade was first being planned under the Biden administration.” Hubbard’s position mirrored what was apparently circulating on social media as a response to criticism of the parade’s costs and totalitarian appearance. As instructed, I did my research of public records ...

Democrats, teachers unions loved vetoes

DEAR EDITOR: I knew the Democrats and school unions would have common cause with lame-duck DeWine vetoes. They start huffing and puffing after the vetoes. The school unions all across the nation continually want more and more and enjoy all the excesses of all the nonstop increases in property taxes. With the Democrats, there is no curtailing of property taxes and they will resist any reasonable plan to fund the schools other than a blank check. The citizens know the bill is a good one and more than fair to the school unions, and nothing bad will happen to the schools. Property ...

Why must politics ruin everything?

DEAR EDITOR: As a retired military man, I was very dismayed at all the No Kings demonstrations on June 14 (Flag Day). The celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday was initiated during the Biden administration. Whether they would have had a parade is unknown. It was a celebration for all the men and women who sacrificed years of family separations, careers and went to war to defend us from socialism and communism (which seems acceptable today) and defend our Constitution. Many protested because it was also Trump’s birthday. There were many others who had birthdays on June 14. ...

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 ...