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To the editor: Overall, labor union membership in the U.S. is on the decline. But new data from the Department of Labor shows that specific unions are bucking that trend. This includes Workers United, the union leading the charge to organize Starbucks workers across the country. With the help of its progressive reputation, the union gained 7,400 new members in 2022 — a 10 percent increase. But new and old members may not be getting the whole story on their union. Most members probably don’t know that Workers United is the largest shareholder at a bank that reports some ...

Veterans deserve to be thanked

To the editor: I’m not sure how many members of council were accused of not honoring the flag during Tuesday’s City Council meeting where our American veterans were going to be honored, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t honor our veterans. We are all thankful for their thankless acts of serving to protect us and our country. The accused members may believe that they and their predecessors have not been treated justly, but more important, they need to remember that they are not on council to represent their own personal beliefs. They were elected to represent their ...

Love and forgiveness

To the editor: Christ’s love and forgiveness: Oh, what love that you laid down your life for the world to take away our sins and give us eternal life. The greatest reward, to be in your presence forever. When we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar and his word is not in us (1 John 1:9-10.) We, although, remember our sins, and the God of this world, the accuser, likes to remind us, but the blood of Christ covers our sins. This is the work of the cross. ...

Writings raise questions

To the editor: Last month, an FBI memo leaked suggesting a sect within the Roman Catholic church might be a breeding ground for a particular version of white nationalism; and as might be expected, certain members of the church immediately began to cry “persecution.” It didn’t matter that it was a memo, not policy. Neither did it matter that the FBI promptly announced it wasn’t something they intended to act upon. One clergyman who cried foul was the Rev. Dave Pivonka, TOR, president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. In the National Catholic Register, Pivonka ...

A case of ego over country

To the editor: As former president Donald J. Trump inexplicably continues to refuse to concede that he lost the 2020 presidential election to the present and, unquestionably, legitimate President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in spite of his instigating a failed and very violent coup attempt to, illegally, keep him in office, and also, following extensive investigations, based on Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, which cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars, concluding that the election was perhaps “the fairest and most lawful election in U.S. history,” it has become, sadly, ...

We’re being lied to

To the editor: When Barack Obama was running for President, he said he would bankrupt coal. At that time coal accounted for 49 percent of America’s energy. During his first term (2009-2013) along with the closings of existing coal-fired plants, he also had moratoriums on deep water drilling and officially rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. In the early months of his presidency, he began his Green Energy program and continued it through his second term (2014-2017.) The result of Obama’s Green Energy agenda “... none you have backed have succeeded, your record is 0 for 300, ...