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Bad policy gets bad jokes

To the editor: Last month, I wrote a letter explaining some (not all) of the reasons why it was imperative that Issue One go down in flames. As we all know, it failed to get the simple majority it needed for passage. In fact, in a case of sublime irony, it was very nearly rejected by the super majority it would have required for future referendums. But just how bad did it fail? It failed so badly that Elon Musk is suggesting that it try a rebrand. It failed so miserably that the lookout on the Titanic wrote it a letter of condolence. It was voted down so handily that Donald ...

Questions about changes in delivery

To the editor: This letter is for the paper’s subscribers, most of whom probably don’t know of the delivery change to take place next week. Beginning the day after Labor Day, the paper will no longer be delivered by carriers, many of whom have been delivering for years, but by the U.S. Postal Service. I have nothing against the Postal Service and, in fact, am a supporter of it, probably because my father was a carrier. In the future, you will no longer receive a paper on holidays since there is no mail service. The day after, you will receive two papers, maybe. Most of the time ...

Knowledge is power

To the editor: Knowledge is power. Knowledge of the wheel built the pyramids. Knowledge of steam power united America around the railroad. Knowledge of polio delivered the first vaccine. And, as the late Nola Rae Campbell (“Warnings for the future,” Aug. 26) noted in her recent letter to this esteemed publication, the knowledge of technology to design gas chambers and cremation ovens was manipulated by Hitler to kill millions. Knowledge is power. We know that as humans we have a duty to protect each other from bodily harm. We know that murder is evil and life is good. We know ...

Remembering Martin Luther King

To the editor: Sixty years have passed and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech still rings throughout the world. The champion of human rights, King believed that all men should live in peace and there be no more white-on-Black violence. Only history and remembrance can make them hate. But King had a dream that one day that in the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood and end racism and acknowledge that all men are created equal. Steve Kopa Weirton

Getting results for our region

To the editor: The Herald-Star editorial board is right – defending American workers should be one of the most important parts of our jobs as public servants (“Brown Defending Workers in Area,” Monday.) And when we stand up for the Ohio steel industry, we get results: After we pushed the Commerce Department to address illegal trade practices, they announced last week that they’ll impose a 122.5 percent tariff on steel from China, to help level the playing field for Ohio steel companies and their workers in Steubenville and Eastern Ohio. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown D-Ohio

Warnings for the future

(Editor’s note: This letter was submitted by Kim Gagich of Wellsburg on behalf of her mother, Nola Campbell, who died on July 5. Gagich said her mother was a big fan of the weekly letters to the editor and dictated this to her shortly before her death.) To the editor: As a young girl, I lived through World War II. Around the radio, we listened nightly as a narcissistic, demented psychopath plowed through Europe, conquering country after country. Millions were killed; millions of Jewish brothers and sisters were burned in the ovens. Are you aware that after Hitler took over, ...