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Letters To The Editor

Schools don’t teach ‘fringe ideologies’

I deplore the shooting death of Charlie Kirk but the fact that he was lying about transgender people in the seconds before he was shot reminded me of how disgusted I was with Matthew Dowling’s commentary Sept. 4. Trans people are estimated to make up 1-2% of the U.S. population and less than ...

LETTER: Trump threatens democracy

So many are amazed to see our democracy being dismantled piece by piece by Donald Trump and his minions. He is not satisfied with destroying our government in Washington, D.C., he must now destroy it in the states too. He wants to send the National Guard to cities which are Democratic, and ...

LETTER: Signature prevents fraud

Signature prevents fraud Mail-in voting results in the polls having an actual physical signature done with an individual voter’s pen on the state’s envelope, which would be the most secure evidence available to check any voting fraud. Donald Trump, under the guidance of that expert on ...

LETTER: Glue traps inhumane

On Aug. 15, columnist Beth Dolinar wrote about trying to catch a mouse in her house. Even though she said she didn't like glue traps because they didn't put the mouse out of its misery immediately, she used one anyway. Fortunately she didn't catch it in the glue trap. Glue traps are ...

LETTER: A thanks to labor unions

This weekend we mark the Labor Day holiday. Its roots go back to Sept. 5, 1882, when Peter J. McGuire loosely organized a march in New York City to honor and call attention to the laborers and unions who were building this country in the Industrial Age. Some 10,000 workers took unpaid leave to ...

LETTER: Trump was played

After watching the very hyped summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin recently, the spectacle reminded me of a country song from long ago. There we had the president of the United States welcoming an international war criminal and murderous dictator to our country for an opportunity ...