Dear Editor: As I write to you and readers of The Times Leader, it has been 34 days and four hours since my precious, beloved Basset puppy went missing from Barnesville. He would have turned one last week. That celebration is on hold. Rufus is a tricolored Basset hound. He has very unusual ...
Dear Editor, I am a railroad signal worker for the Norfolk Southern Railroad and I am a proud union member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS). I am one of the over 6,000 men and women who build, maintain and inspect the major Class I freight railroads’ signal systems that ensure the safe movement of trains and protect the public at highway-rail grade crossings. The work of our craft is critical to the United States’ supply chain. We are currently involved in negotiations with Norfolk Southern Railroad. As a rail worker, I am covered under a National Vacation Agreement ...
Dear Editor, In yesteryears, when academicians would debate, one of first things they would do is to define the meanings of the words or terms (the original meanings for historical documents). After reading numerous articles in the “Letters to the Editor” and various social media outlets, it has become evident to me that the statement “define your terms” need be revived! So, I’m going to define some additional but necessary terms before I explain why I am a “conservative” (in respect to our “constitutional republic”): ∫ Society — there is no definite entity as ...
Dear Editor, My husband Terry Long was run over on November 30th and died on December 1st of 2019. It was hard enough for my children and I to watch him pass away but nothing has been done to find the person that ran over him. Terry Long spent almost all of his life in Barnesville and he was loved by many folks in town. On December 1st we were called into the police station for them to tell us what had happened. After that it seemed like nothing was done. I talked to the assistant prosecutor several times but no one was brought to justice. My children and I are still suffering ...
Dear Editor, Nancy Pelosi is the greatest Speaker of the United States House of Representatives America has ever had! Her greatest achievement in my mind is the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Medicaid Expansion, just one feature of the ACA, has brought health care coverage to an additional 21 million poor people in the U.S. Without Nancy the ACA would never have passed. (The Democrats had just lost their 60 seat majority — but not before passing the ACA and sending it to the House. So Nancy had the House pass the Senate version without amending it, which would have ...
Dear Editor, I read an article that was published after the recent election by a Christian vlogger and they made the following comment: “Democracy was not on the ballot last week, the policies of the New World Order were, and Americans voted to show their approval for chemical castration of children, public school grooming, forced government injections, open borders, the murder of babies inside and outside the womb and an authoritarian regime that is antithetical to free people everywhere. The Great Reset, the Eco Bible, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have won. The Swamp has ...
