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Fighting veteran, first responder suicide

To the editor: In the State of Ohio, organizations have the opportunity to create license plates that reflect their cause, offering a unique medium for spreading awareness and raising support. Recently, during the 136th General Assembly, state Reps. Matt Kishman, R-Minerva, and Jodi Salvo, R-Bolivar, introduced Ohio House Bill 419 in front of the transportation committee. HB 419 will create a SAVE22 license plate. SAVE22 is a nonprofit organization that supports stopping suicide in veterans, first responders and active-duty service members. This plate will help raise awareness ...

Health care, helping homeless

To the editor: Unlike many Democrats in Congress, I’ll admit when I’m wrong. A year ago I predicted the old Democrat party will dismantle in five years. Get a toe tag ready — it’ll probably be much sooner. The communists in this party believe it’s time for an all-out effort to turn America into Cuba. Hysterical Democrats say Trump is king and democracy is dead. Would a king allow them to demonstrate or allow them First Amendment rights? Do people who can’t tell the difference between a man and woman know the difference between king and president? Michelle Obama said ...

Library committed to serving all

To the editor: Thank you to those who took the time to vote yes for the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County’s 1-mill, five-year operating renewal levy once again. Your vote of support for the library to continue free services, reliable resources and engaging programs to all of Jefferson County residents is appreciated. The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County is a county-wide library system with branches in Adena, Brilliant, Dillonvale, two in Steubenville, Tiltonsville, Toronto and bookmobile service. We look forward to the opening of the Bergholz ...

Post election exhale

To the editor: As someone who’s proud to be involved in our local politics, I want to take a moment to reflect on this election season and extend my sincere congratulations to all those who stepped forward to run for public office. Whether your campaign ended in victory or not, you showed something essential to the health of our democracy: A willingness to serve. Running for office requires courage, hard work and a genuine desire to make our communities better. Every candidate who put their name on the ballot contributed to that effort. To those who won — congratulations ...

An author’s opinion on book bans

To the editor: A local resident e-mailed me recently to let me know there are people in Steubenville trying to cut funding for your local libraries. Why? Because the libraries are carrying books like mine, “The Legend of Jamie Roberts.” The books I write have LGBTQ+ characters. This is reason enough for some people to try and convince others to cut funding from your local libraries. That’s unfortunate, because public libraries are great places to seek stories and information from perspectives besides your own. These folks will try to couch it in “concern for the ...

This is no joke

To the editor: Comedian Gianmarco Soresi has a bit where he nervously explains the technical difference among pedophile, hebephile and ephebophile — diagnostic distinctions psychologists use for abhorrent sexual proclivities — while begging the audience to bear with him because he “has a point.” The punchline: “... the reason we don’t make those distinctions is because it’s very hard to explain the difference without sounding like a pedophile.” Apparently Megyn Kelly missed this obvious reflection when she said of Jeffrey Epstein, “He was into the barely legal ...