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Sharing awareness of multiple sclerosis

To the editor: In 2006, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. When diagnosed, I did not know what MS was. Others, along with myself, experience the various challenges of MS, and no two people experience the same effects. No one has chosen to live with MS; it has chosen us. There are things known and things unknown regarding MS. Every hour, someone is diagnosed with MS, a chronic disease of the central nervous system for which there is no cure. MS interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body. A few of the impacts of someone with MS could be one or more of ...

Mazeroski made the area proud

To the editor: I was saddened to learn of the death of Bill “Maz” Mazeroski, a legend in our neck of the woods. I first learned of him through my husband, Lamont, and friends, the main one being Jack Cebulka, who went from Smithfield High School to the Steubenville Barons, I believe. The two basketball players from our high school proceeded to tell us the ins and outs of the sport and had great praise for a player on the team, Maz. We stood around so we could say hello, but he had to hurry home and finish his chores. The next we heard of him was when a baseball game was ...

Reasons to vote Republican

To the editor: A Democrat friend asked me to give her one valid reason why she should vote Republican. Here are a few:. Some people have Trump Derangement Syndrome — their minds can’t comprehend the same evidence that makes common-sense American patriots outraged. Some of their delusions: Joe Biden is competent, Michelle Obama is oppressed, Bill Gates is a scientist, Greta Thunberg is a climate expert, riots are mostly peaceful and illegal alien criminals don’t pose a threat to anyone. The Cato Institute found for every 100,000 illegal aliens, 2.2 Americans are killed by ...

History’s non-mysteries

To the editor: An ancient tale—possibly apocryphal—recounts the story of Sextus Tarquinius, the son of a king, who forced himself on Lucretia, a virtuous Roman woman. Sextus threatened to kill both Lucretia and her servant if she resisted, and afterward Lucretia, overwhelmed by shame, took her own life. Change a few names and the story could feel torn from modern headlines, including revelations surrounding the Epstein files. The story functions as a meme, a paradigm, a trope that appears repeatedly across mythology and religion: Leda and the swan, Medusa and Poseidon, Osiris ...

Congress should step up

To the editor: On Tuesday, more than 70 senators and congressmen boycotted President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech to the nation. In 1971, the Congressional Black Caucus boycotted Richard Nixon’s speech because they disagreed with the president’s policy. After Bill Clinton’s impeachment several (nowhere near 70) Republican lawmakers declined to attend his 1999 speech as a political protest. In 2012 President Barack Obama’s State of the Union was boycotted by Republican Doug Lamborn (a sum total of one.) In 2018 and 2020 multiple Democrats boycotted Trump’s ...

Hoagland right choice in primary

To the editor: Why will I vote for Frank Hoagland in the May 5 Republican primary for the 96th Ohio House? It’s simple, he’s earned my vote by the work he did for Eastern Ohioans when we elected him to the Ohio Senate. As my senator, he got the job done right for me, for my family and our community. I voted for him in the past, and am glad to have him to vote for in May’s Republican primary. Right now we need a solid change. I didn’t expect to have the chance to help Hoagland get elected to the Ohio House with my vote in 2026, but it’s an opportunity I welcome because ...