McConnell wrong on health care bill Dear Editor, Mitch McConnell delayed consideration of the Republican “health care bill” because Senator McCain had to have surgery that will keep him from D.C. for an unspecified amount of time. I wish the senator well, but this bill is coming back ...

Dear Editor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is threatening to eliminate an important clean air protection rule. The rule, which requires oil and gas drillers to use existing technology to reduce the leakage of methane and other harmful pollutants into the ...

Dear Editor, Here is my daily entry in my diary I’ve been keeping since 1982: PTL for a wonderful dreamy nights’ sleep. I had a very happy dream. I dreamed I was in a foreign land. God is blessing me with wonderful ways to praise Him. Each day I can exclaim, “It’s a wonderful ...

Dear Editor, President Trump and his Republican cohorts in the Senate are clearly focused on gutting Medicaid Basic — not just Medicaid Expansion. They don’t want you to notice their efforts to do grave harm to both Medicaid Basic and Medicaid Expansion. Don’t be distracted by ...

Dear Editor: I felt like I had to write back to the Rev. Dalton Hinds. Rev. Hinds, I read your letter at least 10 times, and it concerns me about what you said. You said in your letter that you would have done the same thing that (Michael) Chedester did (he pleaded guilty to two counts ...

Dear Editor, I’ve been listening to all the so-called experts discussing health care for Americans, but so far I have not heard them talking about the real problems. Every dollar that needs cut could be accomplished by simply removing the people who are abusing the system. The same ...

Dear Editor, As the presidency of Donald J. Trump appears to continue in a most disturbing and alarming downward spiral, I fear that his shocking lack of competence, poor judgment, lack of any sense of professionalism, combined with his unparalleled arrogance and narcissism could very well ...

Dear Editor, I went to take care of my loved ones’ graves at Union Cemetery in St. Clairsville and was so pleased to see how nice the cemetery looks. I wanted to thank Danny and his helpers for making our loved ones’ final resting place so nice. I know it is a big job to keep it up ...

Dear Editor, There is an account in the Bible of two women who shared the same home. They both had babies and one rolled over in the middle of the night and killed her baby. She claimed the other woman's baby was her own and both came to King Solomon to settle the dispute. The king, hearing ...

Dear Editor, Everywhere you look or listen, the AHCA and its recent passage in the House is a major topic. Within that, there are a number of topics that make headlines: pre-existing conditions, lifetime maximums, and premium costs to name a few. While those and other are major concerns, ...

Dear Editor, My creed is the same as Thomas Paine's: "The world is my country. All mankind are my brethren. To do good is my religion." I am a Humanist. I believe in science -- not faith. I love the United States of America as proved by my serving three years in the U.S. Navy and over ...

Dear Editor, After reading and seeing so much bad news in the news media Iád like to turn this thing around and concentrate on some good news going on in our communities, etc. For the sake of brevity, Iáll get to it. The village of Belmont has been transformed into a much better community ...

Dear Editor, In response to Mr. Marple letter of 2-27-17, he states that Obama has rats or spies in the FBI and intelligence community. I’m curious as to how he obtained that information. Where is the proof? Who do these rats report to? This is a bombshell, to say the least. Do these ...

Dear Editor, In a statement about his views on the federal budget issued on Feb. 22, Donald Trump said that government spending will reflect the “priorities” of the American people, that there will be “no more wasted money” and that “we are going to be spending the money in a very, ...

Dear Editor, The Sunday school pundit has shared yet another version of alternative facts with your readers — this time it’s a ratty conspiracy theory concerning “left wing Marxist progressives.” He dubs them the “alt left,” a term invented by his fellow conspiracy lovers, and ...

Dear Editor, After reading another hate-filled rant about rats from one who speaks of God far too often, I submit this for your further enjoyment. All the money in the world cannot fix stupid. Nor can it take away the smell of a coward. You can wrap yourself in the flag and throw in some ...

Dear Editor, We have heard reports about undocumented immigrants all across the country being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement under circumstances that are anything but routine, like the 23-year-old DREAMer in Seattle who was taken from his home and detained — despite having ...

Dear Editor, “Ohio police must collect traffic stop data.” Officers must now collect data on the race and gender of people they pull over in traffic stops or take aside for questioning. This was a policy in many agencies across the country for years, until the American Civil Liberties ...

Dear Editor, Eric Bolling of Fox News recently said that 342,000 manufacturing and mining jobs were lost under Obama, (mostly due to the increased costs of government regulations). That means many thousands more were lost in the communities that were partially supported by them. It’s very ...

Dear Editor, At the Barnesville Village Council meeting on Monday, Feb. 6, congratulations were shared between Village Council and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency representative Steve Saines about the completion of Barnesville’s Source Water Protection Plan. As a member of Concerned ...