Letters

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Opinion | Our Voice | Columns Todd Franko Bertram de Souza David Skolnick Ernie Brown | Letters


Average folks have answers

Opinion: Average folks have answers EDITOR: The real ways to fix health care costs have not yet been


Some are quick to call names

Opinion: Some are quick to call names EDITOR: I just have to vent about what I’m hearing in the news. I


In the spirit of Joe McCarthy

Opinion: In the spirit of Joe McCarthy EDITOR: Whether they be called tea baggers, birthers, or deathers,


Green energy holds the key to the future for the Valley

Opinion: Green energy holds the key to the future for the Valley EDITOR: As an entrepreneur and an


It’s time to fix health care

Opinion: It’s time to fix health care EDITOR: Thank you, Thomas Lamb, for your enlightening letter of


Supreme Court flirts with redefining ‘corporation’

Opinion: Supreme Court flirts with redefining ‘corporation’ EDITOR: As someone who believes strongly in


Trustees have been working on Canfield sewer problem

Opinion: Trustees have been working on Canfield sewer problem EDITOR: In response to a Sept. 13 letter,


Lethal injection is inhumane

Opinion: Lethal injection is inhumane EDITOR: The colloquial definition of insanity is to do the same


Toll the bell for the innocent

Opinion: Toll the bell for the innocent EDITOR: As the bells at St. Mary Church in Warren tolled recently


Good for Jim Traficant

Opinion: Good for Jim Traficant EDITOR: After reading The Vindicator’s Sept. 19 editorial, “True to form


Traficant’s scary new fans

Opinion: Traficant’s scary new fans EDITOR: An interesting thing has happened since disgraced former


Everyone recognizes GM’s importance to the area, but YSU employees get no respect

Opinion: EDITOR: In response to the Sept. 15 editorial, “Public should be livid...,” oh, how the worm has


Wilson was out of line

Opinion: Wilson was out of line EDITOR: The ignorance of Republicans is just appalling. When George Bush


God-fearing patriots resent being labeled unAmerican

Opinion: God-fearing patriots resent being labeled unAmerican EDITOR: I take great offense at the cartoon


It shouldn’t cost extra for congressmen to vote

Opinion: It shouldn’t cost extra for congressmen to vote EDITOR: Wouldn’t it be nice to go to a doctor


Tort reform worked in Ohio

Opinion: Tort reform worked in Ohio EDITOR I am puzzled by the Sept. 11 editorial claiming that after


Charter schools preserve a parent’s right to choose

Opinion: Charter schools preserve a parent’s right to choose EDITOR: This letter is in response to the


A true moment of silence

Opinion: A true moment of silence EDITOR: At Friday night’s Austintown Fitch football game they had a


Avoid government health care

Opinion: Avoid government health care EDITOR: We don’t need a new single payer /public option health care


Support the president

Opinion: Support the president EDITOR: It is so disturbing to know that our Congress and a few nay-saying


Sewer project languishes

Opinion: Sewer project languishes EDITOR: In 2003, the Canfield Township trustees secured a Community


What about the steelworkers?

Opinion: What about the steelworkers? EDITOR: Having been a steelworker for 25 years, I’m finding very


Take the fight to Washington

Opinion: Take the fight to Washington EDITOR: The retirees are fighting for what they have worked for and


Motorists: Slow down

Opinion: Motorists: Slow down EDITOR: I am a resident of Youngstown, living on Shirley Road on the South


Administration is wrong on security and health care

Opinion: Administration is wrong on security and health care EDITOR: I am appalled that the current


Letter was a clunker

Opinion: Letter was a clunker EDITOR: A letter that appeared in The Vindicator, Aug. 25 from a


Leave it as you found it

Opinion: Leave it as you found it EDITOR: I had the pleasure of attending one of the area’s band shows


A kinder, gentler ‘worst’

Opinion: A kinder, gentler ‘worst’ EDITOR: An Aug. 31 letter, “‘Worst’ is a word that hurts,” commented


Let’s celebrate Labor Day by buying American

Opinion: Let’s celebrate Labor Day by buying American EDITOR: Here, in our Valley as the unemployment


Support the Canfield Fair; give school kids a break

Opinion: Support the Canfield Fair; give school kids a break EDITOR: For several years I have been an


Show your patriotism by flying the flag

Opinion: Show your patriotism by flying the flag EDITOR: Eight years ago, this country was attacked by


Court observer doesn’t think Traficant got a fair trial

Opinion: Court observer doesn’t think Traficant got a fair trial EDITOR: “Celebration is a slap in the


Enough Traficant bashing

Opinion: Enough Traficant bashing EDITOR: I’m so sick of the “trashing of Traficant.” The four


Big news was a big bust

Opinion: Big news was a big bust EDITOR: The two-day, two-station over coverage of Jim Traficant’s letter


No pigs need die for wounded soldiers to live

Opinion: No pigs need die for wounded soldiers to live EDITOR, I read the Aug. 13 article “To get the