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Safety first

Editor: I have been watching the Morning Journal articles concerning the proposed half percent tax increase. I have a few thoughts I would like to share. I have been watching how many calls our emergency technicians are not able to cover through no fault of the personnel. Our fire and emergency technicians also have jobs and families to support along with doing duties in the fire department and most work during the day. This leaves a certain amount of hours when we do not have the coverage needed to respond to ambulance calls. We have a large number of seniors in our town who ...

Online fee

Editor: After many years, it was nice to see the city of East Liverpool update into the 21st century by being able to pay your water bill online, however after logging into the information and putting in my credit card information and going through all the hoops, I sadly found out that the company that does their payments wants to charge you $3.99 to pay your bill. I think that’s outrageous considering the electric company and the gas company and most mortgage companies do not charge you anything to pay the bill. With the water department always increasing something, why don’t they ...

Law should bite back at someone

Editor: In August 2018 a volunteer dog walker at the Columbiana County Dog Pound was severely bitten. Personnel from the nearby county jail provided first aid and filed a sheriff’s report. The victim was transported to an out-of-county hospital and required emergency surgery for repair of wounds. The dog was euthanized. Ohio Revised Code 955.261 requires that “no person shall kill a dog that has bitten any person until a (10 day) quarantine period has been completed. No person who has killed a dog that has bitten any person to prevent further injury...shall fail to do the ...

Grand-slamming

Editor: Reading newspaper coverage of Lisbon council meetings, it is evident that Councilman Peter Wilson gets slammed nearly every time he brings up a suggestion for saving the village money or for improving the town. Most recently, according to news accounts, Mayor Roger Gallo accused Wilson of “grandstanding” when Wilson suggested council consider the feasibility of having an outside agency handle village income tax collections. This is a potential money-saving practice already adopted by other cities in Columbiana County. When another councilman suggested this was a dead ...

Jet lag

Editor: Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats wanted to take a seven-day excursion to Afghanistan, Egypt and Belgium. Thank God Trump shut it down. She and other Dems wanted to travel on our dollars, not theirs. Trump said they could fly commercial if they wanted to. It’s easier to spend our money instead of their own. John Arnette East Liverpool

Diesel deals

Editor: The price of crude oil started dropping like a rock well over a month ago and the local (Lisbon) price of gasoline followed suit. However, the price of diesel fuel didn’t budge for a long time. It remained at $3.29 per gallon. The price of gasoline is now well below $2 per gallon and the price of diesel has finally dropped to $2.99. Too little, too late. Just 26 miles away in Carrollton, the price per gallon of diesel has been dropping two to three cents a day for a month. I filled my truck up with diesel in Carrollton today and the price was $2.39 per gallon. Either ...