Rivers’ retirement is loss for the Valley

January 4, 2025

DEAR EDITOR: I would like to begin by congratulating Dan Rivers on his retirement. May God bless you with many years of health and happiness. With that said, I am dismayed that IHeart radio (570-AM) has chosen NOT TO REPLACE him with a local voice! Armstrong and Getty are plain awful! They laugh constantly and use “choice words” more often than I care to hear. I called the radio station shortly upon Dan’s exodus and was made aware that there is no phone at the local radio station, that all calls are forwarded to a Cleveland station. The phone rang many times and finally a ...

Donald Trump voters did not elect a winner

January 4, 2025

DEAR EDITOR: Trump won. Voters unable to make rent, or afford day care or higher education, or even three squares a day voted for him and his promise to make the mysterious “they / them” pay for economic misery. Voters who mistrusted, for valid or bogus reasons, national government, opted for him. Those who believed his claims our country was weak as he maligned the world’s most powerful military voted for him. Those who listened to their lesser angels believed them, and voted Trump, thinking people of a different skin color, religious belief, country of birth, financial status, ...

Citizens United 15 years later — what is left?

January 4, 2025

DEAR EDITOR: Come January 2025, what else have we to contend with besides 47 and his White House circus? Well, for openers, January 2025 will mark the 15th anniversary of Citizens United being approved by a partisan SCOTUS. That’s right, and for those of you who may have not heard of this landmark decision, let me briefly bring you up to speed. This highly controversial decision (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations (also known as gangster capitalism) and other outside groups (euphemistically ...

Our tribal ways are reason for nation’s woe

January 4, 2025

DEAR EDITOR: It is a Christmas morning, when we think of those who are too far to see, but close enough to love: Family and friends, and all the members of our human family. If we could only stand together, form a circle, connected by hands, but cemented with love. Unfortunately, reality dictates otherwise. Despite high levels of education, we are unconsciously still tied to our “tribal” past. Knowledge of religion, philosophy, science and technology has not changed our real human values, and “tribal” DNA. We temporarily rest for a while, when exhausted, physically, ...

RFK Jr. should be approved to lead HHS

January 4, 2025

DEAR EDITOR: The Vindicator’s daily poll question on Thursday was should the U.S. Senate confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary? My answer is a resounding yes. I first started paying attention to RFK Jr. when he wrote an article about Thimerosal that appeared simultaneously in Salon and Rolling Stone in 2005. Thimerosal is a cheap mercury preservative that has been used in multidose vials of some vaccines including the flu vaccine. His article was later removed from both publications due to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry. I next saw Kennedy speak on the ...

Sound off!

January 4, 2025

I don’t understand the majority of “pro life” Republicans who are outraged at President Biden commuting the death sentence of several individuals. I thought pro life meant you are for human life and dignity, at the beginning of life as well as at the end! If you are truly pro life, you have to be anti-death penalty! — Warren Vienna Township’s former fiscal officer is sleeping well at home. She was never booked in the Trumbull County jail but maybe she was fingerprinted at the courthouse. We can’t be sure. She is checking in with her parole officer weekly. Maybe calling in, ...