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Disappointed with recent Crestview article

To the editor: I was disappointed to read the (Feb. 12) article about Crestview Local Schools, and how COVID19 has been handled in regard to classes. Crestview is where I graduated from, and you won’t find more caring or compassionate staff. My husband has cancer and is immune compromised by his medication. Our children bringing home Covid would be a death sentence. This virus and the inconvenience is temporary, death is permanent. I was contacted by Dan Hill at Crestview and the school compassionately made an extra dose list for the vaccine when staff was vaccinated so they could ...

In support of the right to organize

To the editor: Nearly 60 million people say they would join a union today if they could. The problem? Union-busters, Big Business and woefully outdated laws continue to undermine the right to collectively bargain. Just take “right to work” laws, for example. Across the country, anti-worker legislators are relentlessly fighting to pass right to work, which has a more than 70-year track record of lowering wages, reducing benefits and making workplaces more dangerous. Right to work is a Jim Crow relic that was specifically designed to keep White and Black workers apart, playing on ...

Responds to syndicated columnist

To the editor: In response to Leonard Pitts’  Feb. 10 editorial,  let me say….“Good” is EXACTLY what it is……. I don’t always get a chance to read the opinion page of our daily paper, but since I was feeling under the weather, I decided to indulge myself. I read Leonard Pitts’ commentary with some degree of sadness regarding his general view of our “country”: a moral failure clinging to the wrong priorities.  A “country” is made up of people, and thankfully there are still “Mr. Darbys” in our country – hardly a moral failure and hardly clinging to ...

A public thank you for helping his father

To the editor: Alzheimer’s is an awful disease. To witness a loved one travel this path is a deep hurtful pain I wish on no one. In the advance stages, like my father’s, they crave routines. With great anticipation they look forward to the mailman delivering mail and, yes, garbage collection day is a big day for my dad. He gets to greet his buddies and wave, laugh and tell them his stories. Recently East Liverpool was hit with a massive snow storm that thankfully I don’t have to endure any more down in Texas. My father attempted to greet the guys collecting his trash like ...

Thoughts from former Board of Elections administrator

To the editor: As a retired elections administrator for the Columbiana County Board of Elections this is a communique that I thought I would never consider to write with reference to the non-stop nonsense of how fraud and ballot tampering occurred nationwide in the last election. The false narratives keep looping through the social media and in some public medias. In this Great Experiment we as citizens must accept tht democracy is fragile, and all of us need to keep alert and working to protect, preserve and keep it functioning as tritely stated “elections have consequences.” Our ...

Wasn’t too impressed with her teacher

To the editor: This letter is in response to Dr. Walter Dombroski in his letter to the editor printed Dec. 23 on his question whether American government and history is now being taught to high school students. I graduated from Salem High School, class of 1959. This is the way the teacher taught the class I was a student in: Teacher: “Open book and quietly read chapter XX. Time is up!” Teacher: “Print answers to questions at ‘end of chapter’ on paper. Time is up!” Teacher: “Pass the paper to the person behind you and grade on correct answers. Time is up!” Teacher: ...