ELECTION LETTERS
The deadline is noon Thursday, October 28, for having election related letters printed in the Your View feature of The Lima News for the Nov. 2 election.
Letters can be no longer than 275 words and must include the name of the writer, the town in which they live, and the writer’s telephone number. The phone number is for verification purposes only and will not be published.
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Does a chatbot have a soul?
Don’t unplug your computer! Don’t throw away that smartphone! Just because a Google software engineer whose conclusions have been questioned says a computer program is sentient, meaning it can think and has feelings, doesn’t mean an attack of the...
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Elyria Chronicle-Telegram: 24 hours isn’t enough training for armed teachers
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine should have vetoed a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns in schools with minimal training. The bill passed the General Assembly on a largely party-line vote recently. The bill allowed teachers to carry weapons after 24 hours of initial...
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Toledo Blade: Ohio justices made right call in health-care case
Members of the Ohio Supreme Court made the correct decision by staying out of what is clearly the legislature’s business. A lawsuit against the state’s pandemic restrictions argued that the court should require legislators to enforce a portion of the Ohio...
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Dallas Morning News: Don’t go to Saudi Arabia, President Biden
Last week’s news that the European Union has reached an agreement to sharply curtail the purchase of Russian oil is a welcome development that signals the continent is not only united against the genocidal attack on Ukraine but that its political leaders are...
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Wall Street Journal: Biden uses his emergency powers as a Band Aid
Donald Trump abused his national security power by slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to support domestic producers. Now President Biden is stealing from his predecessor’s industrial policy guidebook by invoking the Defense Production Act to boost...
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Toledo Blade: Audit on state retirement plans opens some eyes
An audit of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio told some stories, yet failed to tell the whole story. We’ve waited six years beyond the legal deadline for an independent fiduciary audit of the STRS. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Funston Advisory...
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Dallas Morning News: Gun violence is a solvable public health crisis
As the murdered children of Uvalde are laid to rest this week, our nation needs to muster the courage and political will to treat rising gun violence and mass shootings as an acute public health crisis. When auto accidents claimed a large number of lives, government...
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Toledo Blade: Husted’s other job
Jon Husted is taking state politics into groundbreaking new territory. It’s ground better left unbroken. The lieutenant governor joined the board of directors of Columbus area–based Heartland Bank in March. The bank job is a paid position. His job with the...
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McAllen (Texas) Monitor: Time for Texas to act on gun reform
In a news conference last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claimed he was “livid” after learning that he had been given less than accurate information regarding the actual circumstances surrounding the approach taken by law enforcement in the horrific mass...
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Dallas Morning News: After Uvalde shooting, will Americans finally say enough?
The feeling is too familiar now. It hits like a shock and then twists into emotions of horror, anger, sadness and fear until it settles in the mind as a sickening numbness that we don’t know what to do with. The place this time is Uvalde, Texas. The deaths...
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Evidence-based treatment an answer to deadly fentanyl overdoses
As deadly fentanyl claims more Ohio lives, evidence-based treatment is among the answers Ohio and the nation are confronted with a drug abuse crisis typified by misuse of the powerful deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl. And the death count continues to rise. Little...
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Toledo Blade: A tale of two tactics
We live in a time of rapid and massive change. How Ohio institutions deal with that change is in the midst of intense debate. The key issue is who should steer the response to change, the people most affected or the people most powerful? Two recent decisions well...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Who are they? And what do they want?
They don’t try to communicate, and they don’t respond when we try to communicate with them. They speed away if we get too close. They move faster than anything known in this world and violate the laws of physics. At least 11 times, they’ve nearly...
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Dallas Morning News: Remote school was a disaster for low-income minority students
Just about every teacher, parent and student who endured the sad and dragged-out mess of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic understands that it was a disservice to young people. It hurt them academically and emotionally, and whatever was gained from a public...
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Sandusky Register: State leaders wrong about public health, again
A move by state lawmakers to strip local governments of the power to appoint members of the local health board is, in our view, a continuing abuse of power. It’s also unneeded, unnecessary and dangerous. State Rep. Scott Wiggam, R-Wooster, chairman of the House...
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Chicago Tribune: The frustration with the new US disinformation board? Too little information
The most troubling problem with the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board is how little information the government has released about it. The Department of Homeland Security announced the board in late April, yet little has been forthcoming...
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Chips bill compromise would be a win for Ohio, bipartisanship and the nation
In a heartening example of cross-aisle cooperation for the benefit of Ohio, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a suburban Cincinnati Republican, says he’s joining with Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, to help craft and get across the finish line compromise...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune: Leaked draft in abortion case is a loss for the US Supreme Court
The public square was consumed Tuesday with speculation about the future of abortion in the United States. That’s understandable, following the publication of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. For the moment,...
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Youngstown Vindicator: Ohio State Parks Week showed what we can offer to all
During last week’s Ohio State Parks Week, many Buckeye State residents might have been surprised to learn there are 75 state parks, with recreational opportunities ranging from kayaking on Lake Erie to hiking to gorgeous, historic forests and formations....
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Chicago Tribune: Student loan forgiveness must target needy
Attacking “waste, fraud and abuse” is a common promise made by both parties, but too often forgotten after the campaigning is over. On the touchy issue of student loan debt forgiveness, President Joe Biden can hardly afford to forget. On the one hand,...
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Republicans, don’t you want to be free?
Dear Republicans: That’s what a free woman looks like. Meaning, of course, Cassidy Hutchinson, a young former aide in Donald Trump’s White House, who appeared before the House committee investigating the attempted coup of Jan. 6. Free of the need to defend...

David Trinko: Wapakoneta family sees power of community after Amtrak tragedy
WAPAKONETA — The Steinke family, of Wapakoneta, headed out West for a memorable railroad trip across the great expanse. Being aboard the Amtrak train that tragically struck a dump truck Monday, killing four people near Mendon, Missouri, isn’t what the...

Llewellyn King:
Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German...

Michael Reagan: After Roe, there’s no time to party
It’s been a fabulous week for conservatives, Republicans and millions of ordinary Americans. I cheered all of the Supreme Court’s recent blockbusters – for moral, political and personal reasons. I’m 100 percent pro-life. I believe adults should...

Lori Borgman: The Boston Tea Party you never read about
I witnessed the Boston Tea Party, the Battle at Concord and Paul Revere’s Ride. You didn’t think I was that old, did you? I was a kid at the time, living in a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood that went all out for the Fourth of July. Old, fuzzy...

John Grindrod: Gluttony, a Coney Island tradition
With tomorrow’s Independence Day, I got to thinking recently about all the traditions that surround summer’s grandest holiday. Of course, there’ll be many folks hoisting the flag who don’t ordinarily do that each day, a flag vastly different...

Legal-Ease: Defensive driving principles in the law
Defensive driving encourages each vehicle driver to avoid accidents, even if the avoidable accident would be the other driver’s fault. The idea is that we can and should be more responsible than possibly legally required, because being responsible avoids...

Reghan Winkler: Reducing robocalls
OK, raise your hand if you think you’ve received a scam phone call or text this past week. If you raised your hand, you’re probably right. YouMail, a company specializing in blocking those messages, estimates Americans will receive 52 billion (with a B)...

Phil Hugo: A sensory exploration of books
I’m flipping through a book my wife, Karen, gave me for my birthday: “Taste — My Life Through Food” — by Stanley Tucci. It’s about his life and love affair with food, among other things. You may know Tucci by way of his work on...

Ron Lora: Transitioning away from the American Century
Nearly a year before the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941, media baron Henry Luce wrote a Life magazine editorial, declaring that “The 20th Century must to a significant degree be an American Century.” Before the war, there had...
LETTERS
We welcome letters of 275 words or fewer. Letters are subject to editing for length, clarity and grammar. They should be concise, to the point and original — no form letters, please. Letters dealing with private disputes or containing criticism of private individuals or businesses are not published. Letters must have a signature (unless emailed) and a full name, address and daytime telephone number (for verification purposes only). Writers are limited to one letter a month. Letters may be published on our website. MAIL LETTERS TO: The Lima News Letters Column 3515 Elida Road Lima, OH 45807 E-MAIL LETTERS TO: [email protected] ONLINE FORM: Click here to send a letter to the editor online.
Letter: Jan. 6 hearings show flaws of the Democrats
I’d like to thank the “Select Committee” of the House of Representatives, the media, the Democratic Party and the weak links of the Republican Party for reminding me why Donald J. Trump was and should be president. The Jan. 6 hearing is no hearing at...

Letter: Immigrants could help labor shortage
I think we as Americans should state the obvious. We do have a crisis at the Southern border. We do not have enough people coming up here for a better life who are willing to work hard. My father, who just passed away, said that we have millions who say they are...

Letter: Best option is sending immigrants back home
In response to the cartoon which The Lima News published that indicated that the replacement theory was started by white supremacists, please consider this: The people who will be replaced are the workers at the lower end of the pay scale. These folks include...

Letter: Good things, bad things with alternative energy
I see that Mr. Wildermuth agrees with me that production of ethanol from corn is a wasteful use of our farmlands. Good thing. It requires more energy to produce than energy realized. Bad thing. As land is defaced by panels or wind towers, it is no longer agricultural...

Letter: Keep it down for everyone’s sake
Baby, it’s loud outside. Please consider that fireworks are terrifying to many, if not most, pets in your neighborhood. Please also consider that loud sounds travel well past your pools and patios. In our Shawnee neighborhood just off Spencerville Road, for...

Letter: Worldwise crises put problems in perspective
In Ukraine, countless thousands have been killed, and millions have fled their homeland due to a war started by a maniacal madman. In Afghanistan, a recent earthquake killed at least 1,000 people, and the death count grows daily. In North Korea, starvation is the...

Letter: Presidential Medal of Freedom for Pence?
In 2017, President Obama stated receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom award with distinction indicates “an additional level of veneration in a class of individuals already held in the highest esteem. I am still trying to understand how Jim Jordan was made...

Letter: Both sides failing in solving problems
Thank you for your article “Contradictory decisions or consistent?” It is true that Nancy Pelosi’s comments constitute “calling the kettle black.” The political side that calls for racial equality, compassionate treatment of immigrants...

Letter: Crisis pregnancy centers are doing unethical work
I have received a good deal of backchat, heat and even a few vague threats for my letter of May 21st in which I am critical of The Lima News’ coverage of Heartbeat of Lima. Heartbeat is what is generally known as a “Crisis Pregnancy Center.” I...

Letter: Answers still needed on rape case of Dr. Wine
I would like to call to readers’ attention that an innocent man remains “convicted” in Auglaize County, thanks to the incompetence and dishonesty of retired sheriff Al Solomon, Prosecuting Attorney Ed Pierce and Judge Frederick Pepple. In his book,...