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 ...

Dear Editor, When Senate Republicans confirmed Rep. Mick Mulvaney as Trump’s budget director they aimed a big gun at Social Security — despite Trump’s campaign promise to never cut it. Mulvaney is co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, the most extreme element of the Tea Party. He ...

Dear Editor, DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, has come under scrutiny of President Trump’s administration. DACA provides work authorization and a temporary halt on the deportation of illegal immigrants that arrived in the United States as children if they meet certain ...

Dear Editor, Donald Trump continues to insist on building a wall along the 1,954-mile border with Mexico. He has repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for the wall. He has since learned otherwise. His latest plan calls for a 20 percent tax on imports coming from Mexico. In my world, the ...