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FRC remains part of the solution

Editor: Last week, East Liverpool Chief John Lane announced that the city had received the state DART grant for $50,000 over the next two years. The city is to be congratulated on this achievement, and now have the ability to provide help to the many in the area suffering from drug addiction. Josh Lytle certainly is extending the support of his program as there has been a significant increase in the number of drug overdoses over the past several years. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify what the Family Recovery Center does with the number of clients who have come ...

The anniversary

Editor: I enjoy the written word — and I think that the editors and writers for this newspaper never get the recognition that they deserve. I read the article written by Mr. Tom Giambroni covering the ceremony for Sept. 11 held in Wellsville on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. He did an excellent job and I wish that I could have shared the experience but, silly me, I thought the ceremony would have been held on the actual day of the tragedy. However, after reading other accounts of the event that were also held on that day, I can understand that it was convenient for working people. Ms. ...

Target the source

Editor: Everywhere we turn, whether it be TV, internet or newspapers, the drug abuse epidemic is discussed. Substance abuse costs our nation approximately $600 billion annually. Some 24.6 million Americans, 9.4 percent of the population, abuse drugs. That is an 8 percent increase since 2002. As for spending, $12.54 billion is spent on treatment and $9.4 billion for law enforcement. Only 1.34 billion is spent on prevention. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) has been around since 1983 and is in 75 percent of our nation’s schools. “Just Say No to Drugs” has been around ...

They served too

Editor: During the Vietnam War Navy personnel served in the offshore waters on battle stations providing continuous naval gunfire support, search and rescue, and aircraft carrier support and protection. In January of 1991, the United States Congress, by unanimous consent of both House and Senate, passed a law acknowledging that components of herbicides (mainly Agent Orange) extensively sprayed over the Vietnamese countryside were the cause of major health problems to all of the men who fought in that war. In 2002, without consulting Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Thievery

Editor: The Senate and the House are in a gridlock over the Affordable Care Act and tax reform. These legislators are all playing gotcha games at trying to make the opposite party look bad. Feathering their own nests appears to be the order of the day. The pay of Senate members is $175,000 a year. Yet the average net worth of these senators is $1 million. It would take 50 years at $175,000 a year to accumulate $1 million. The short cut to wealth is through the wallets of the American taxpayers. Political influence is being sold for money and perks. Bernie Sanders, a native of ...

A dying breed

Editor: What has happened to America’s middle class and working families? America came out of the Great Depression and built the greatest middle class the world has known by using our own hard work and government to open up opportunities for millions of people. Ninety percent of America got most of the gains. Today the great middle class is on the ropes. People are angry because they work hard and their income barely moves. Jobs are going overseas and young people are being destroyed by student loans. Seniors can’t make Social Security checks cover basic expenses.Today this ...