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Prince of darkness rejoices

To the editor: On Nov. 7, most televised news showed the exuberant celebration in the 25 counties that dictated their deeply flawed ideology to the other 63. Their joy was for the passage of a constitutional amendment securing the secular sanctification of genocide; for their glee, the prince of darkness rejoices. As written, the purposeful ambiguity of this amendment goes far beyond what the secular left was claiming, and gives Planned Parenthood virtual power over our elected government, forcing the elected to be a shield preventing any public declaration of respect for life. For ...

Democrats trying to survive

To the editor: Forgive them, father, for they know exactly what they’re doing. The National Organization of Women and Planned Parenthood are destroying your creation, the family unit, and trying to eliminate God from America by pushing an agenda to murder babies in the womb and allow 12-year-old girls to abort without parents knowledge, consent or support. Although Ohio’s Issue 1 passed (63 of 88 counties voted it down, liberals in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus pushed it through), it failed by almost 4,000 votes in Jefferson County. Thank you 11,701 voters knowing right from ...

Soccer event was successful

To the editor: On Oct. 7 at Harding Stadium, the Edison girls, Harrison boys, Steubenville Catholic Central boys and girls, Indian Creek boys and girls and Steubenville Big Red boys and girls soccer teams gathered for a soccer tournament to benefit the Cancer Dietary Initiative. CDI is a local organization established 10 years ago with the primary purpose of providing nutritional support to local cancer patients and their immediate families while they are undergoing the hardships of cancer treatment. Not only do these soccer teams come together for a competitive tournament, ...

Pearl Harbor memories

To the editor: Where was I on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941? I was playing at my rural home in Carroll County, blissfully unaware that all of our lives were soon to change very much. Mom and Pop and my brother and I heard the news, but it didn’t sink in very much until the next day at school. We attended a one-room schoolhouse known as Carroll County No. 5. Electricity had come to our area about a year earlier through the REA. I was a nearly-8-year-old third-grader — one of three in my class. The whole school was taken by our teacher (about 30 of us) to the house across the ...

Voters spoke — will they listen?

To the editor: On Nov. 7, Ohio voters passed Issues One and Two, enshrining the right to abortion access into the state’s Constitution, and legalizing recreational marijuana use. This happened despite hyperbolic fearmongering from opponents of both measures. Yet already we’re seeing knee-jerk reactionary efforts by right-wing politicians intent on reigning back access to recreational pot and reproductive health care. The day after the measures passed, Gov. Mike Dewine said, “People will decide if they are comfortable with what we voted on, or they will decide that it maybe ...

Proud Democrats fighting for you

To the editor: A letter to the editor titled “Know who you are voting for” from Oct. 28 attempted to take a cheap shot at myself and the local Democratic Party. Contrary to the foolish assumption made by the author, I’m a proud Democrat who has no interest in hiding it or trying to trick anyone into believing otherwise. The Democratic Party is the only party that stands for the working class people of this county. The Democratic Party is the party that passed substantial legislation during the first two years of the Biden Administration, with critical assistance from U.S. ...