ELECTION LETTERS
The deadline is noon Thursday, October 29, for having election related letters printed in the Your View feature of The Lima News for the November 3 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 The phone number is for verification purposes only and will not be published.
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The Lima News editorial policy is independent of political party affiliation. Opinions expressed in the Our View column reflect the view of The Lima News editorial board. Opinions elsewhere on this page are solely those of the writers.
The editorial board includes Kirk Dougal, Publisher (kdougal@aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0371); Jim Krumel, Editor (jkrumel@aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0391); and David Trinko, Managing Editor (dtrinko@aimmediamidwest.com, 567-242-0467).
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thank you, election workers
If you think it was stressful waiting for election boards around the country to count the millions of votes in the presidential election, imagine being the workers who were doing the counting. Or imagine being the poll workers who braved exposure to the coronavirus to...
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Akron Beacon Journal: Ohioans have left Gov. Mike DeWine with few options to fight COVID-19
Eight months after shutting Ohio down during the early emergence of COVID-19, Gov. Mike DeWine can’t win. Too many Ohioans have ignored his pleas to avoid gatherings and wear masks. Pandemic fatigue is real, even for people taking this health threat seriously....
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The Washington Post: Saudis must address human rights issues
Saudi Arabia has spent millions in the past two years seeking to whitewash an image tarnished by war crimes in Yemen and the brutal repression of domestic dissent. The effort was meant to culminate this weekend as it hosted the summit of the Group of 20 nations in...
read moreEditorial: A ray of hope for the pandemic’s end — in 2021
On Monday, a still-divided America received some pandemic news that just about everyone can be happy about: An experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by drug manufacturer Pfizer and BioNTech, a German pharmaceutical company, is just weeks away from filing for federal...
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Editorial: Biden has an opportunity to lead
With the vote-counting now nearing its end, the results of this election were close but they were also clear. Democrat Joe Biden accomplished what only three other people have done since the age of FDR: He defeated a sitting president’s bid for a second term in...
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Editorial: Assumption of bad faith
What are we to make of the confirmation hearings on Judge Amy Coney Barrett? How do we judge the process? Judge Barrett used the word “excruciating” to describe the nomination process and asked, “what sane person” would subject himself or...
read moreEditorial: Stay safe in winter
The warm summer months have given us a slight advantage in the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19. Being able to dine outdoors, visit at a distance outdoors and enjoy time in parks and wilderness all have let us use open spaces and fresh air to thwart transmission...
read moreVP debate awelcome returnto normal politcs
The vice-presidential debate, despite its limitations, felt like a breakthrough after the recent top-of-the-ticket atrocity. Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris let each other speak, for the most part. They exchanged some intelligible opinions. They...
read moreEditorial: Local governments, voters can help keep integrity of elections
Americans have fought and died for the right to vote. The alarming developments in this extraordinary election year make clear the fight to exercise that right is far from over. President Trump, who is trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden in most polls, including...
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Editorial: Trump’s coronavirus infection is the result of his deadly, foolish recklessness
Americans awakened Friday morning to the grave news that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the dreadful coronavirus that has killed more than 207,000 people in the U.S. and brought the U.S. economy to its knees. The news came...
read moreMinneapolis Star Tribune: Trump’s UN (campaign) address
President Donald Trump gave a Tuesday campaign speech that blasted Beijing’s COVID-19 culpability, lauded his administration’s response to the pandemic and celebrated America’s abdication of the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal. No,...
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Editorial: Don’t call Ruth Bader Ginsburg a revolutionary
We join the nation in mourning the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her life of service to our country and its laws has rightly inspired millions who see this mighty woman as a representative of the best of America. But even as we begin mourning her passing and...
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Editorial: Honor Ginsburg by putting integrity of institution first
The loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a double blow. It will be felt as a personal loss by millions of Americans, and it will stress America’s politics at a moment when its fabric is already threatening to come apart. Consider this a measure of the country’s...
read moreEditorial: Don’t be fooled by ‘pixie dust,’ vague promises
Type 2 diabetes. Sleep apnea. Obesity. Coronary artery disease. Mental illness. These are just a few of what used to be known as “declinable conditions” before the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. If you had one of them and had to buy health coverage on...
read moreEditorial: Never before have we had to defend the Constitution like we have to today
It’s not just that students aren’t taught much about the Constitution anymore. It’s that they’re often taught to despise it and to despise America’s entire founding through propaganda like the 1619 Project. Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, a...
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Editorial: Dominoes of peace: Pieces of a new Mideast are falling into place
Buy one, get one free isn’t usually for treaties between nations, but it happened, so we offer high praise for President Trump, Jared Kushner and other key administration officials for engineering a pair of Israel-Arab peace pacts in less than a month,...
read moreCommentary: Six months into the pandemic, downtown Chicago is a humbled giant. Can it get back on its feet?
CHICAGO — Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic first shook Chicago, the city’s once-mighty downtown — with its towering skyscrapers, glamorous shops and glittering public spaces — is a humbled giant, taking only tentative steps toward...
read moreEditorial: What’s happening with COVID in schools? We don’t know
With students starting to return to classrooms across the country as COVID-19 infection rates shrink, parents, teachers and the public as a whole are watching anxiously. There already have been some worrisome stories about kids who crowded in hallways or on bus lines,...
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Editorial: Sad when Trump doesn’t understand military values
America’s armed forces impress certain core values upon their recruits. The Army’s, for example, are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. “In serving your country,” the Army explains, “you are...
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Editorial: And we’re off! Don’t sit this one out.
American presidential elections go on too long. This one arguably began on July 28, 2017, just eight months after the election of President Donald Trump, when U.S. Rep. John Delaney of Maryland announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination. The early entry did...
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Dr. Robert W. Chase: Dependence on foreign minerals is a threat to U.S. auto industry
If someone had suggested 20 years ago that dependence on imported minerals — and not oil or natural gas — would become the dominant natural resource problem facing an incoming administration, I would have said it was absurd. Having been in the oil business...
Opinion: Don’t worry about the side effects, rigidity is the problem
Simple advice to innovators and policymakers: Don’t worry about collateral needs or they will distort your good growth and policy efforts. If we look back, the development of the automobile had collateral effects beyond the ability of the auto pioneers to...
John Grindrod: Thanksgiving, surely different but the feeling is the same
On the eve of yet another holiday that in many places will look markedly different in this, the most challenging year many have ever faced, I took a look back at the first of the holidays this year that was forced to change its appearance. If you’ll recall, last...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Thanks for people like Dolly Parton
Greed is good. That, you may recall, was the mantra of corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film, “Wall Street.” It came to symbolize the rapacious gluttony of that era — and its rejection of the dewy-eyed idealism of the 1960s. Well, 1987 was a...
Jim Krumel: A Thanksgiving wedding, a match made in Ottoville
Some people would call Robert and Louise Miller’s 65-year marriage “a match made in heaven.” Others will tell you, perhaps only half jokingly, that it may rank even a step higher, that being “a match made in Ottoville.” The Miller...
David Trinko: A great big serving of gratitude for Thanksgiving
It sounded unfathomable: Thanksgiving is canceled this year? Sure enough, my side of the family’s annual gathering of my parents, siblings and our respective branches of the family won’t be gathering for turkey Thursday. Coronavirus cooked that goose....
Cheryl Parson: What to do when check is in the mail
It’s all about the story. That’s what scammers sell, the story. If it’s a good enough story, they will use it again and again and again. And if it’s a really good one, scammers will tweak it, adding new features that enhance their efforts to...
Legal-Ease: Legal authority to issue and enforce quarantine orders
Recently, we have heard about the “second wave” of virus infection that is apparently spreading right now. In response to this situation, our governor and the Ohio Department of Health have issued quarantine orders that preclude certain businesses from...
Mark Figley: Trump deserves right to challenge uncounted votes
On election night, Donald Trump appeared to be on the verge of snatching victory from defeat just as he did in 2016. Then inexplicably, several swing states he was winning stopped counting votes without explanation. When voting resumed, Joe Biden magically began to...
Ken Pollitz: No canceling of Thanksgiving
Apparently, so I’ve surmised, somewhere in this vast country of ours resides a people group known as the “cancel culture.” Given our ongoing and restrictive pandemic, I’ve accumulated quite a few unused travel reward points through our credit...
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: letters@limanews.com ONLINE FORM: Click here to send a letter to the editor online.
Letter: Mr. DeWine: Where has money gone?
In April Gov. Mike DeWine told the schools there would be a $700 million shortfall from Ohio to the schools, the consequences of COVID-19. In October of 2019 the Ohio legislature passed and Gov DeWine signed the Marketplace Facilitator law whereby any company doing...
Letter:Ohio should be thanking DeWine
For months now we’ve seen Gov. Mike DeWine severely chastised by Republicans in Ohio for the actions he’s taken to protect Ohioans from the coronavirus. He’s been called a RINO, a traitor, a tyrant, a fool, etc. This despite the fact that he’s...
Letter: Grateful for the man who stopped to help
My sisters and I want to express our thankfulness to a complete stranger. We don’t know his name or address. What we do know is that he is a Godsend, and we couldn’t be more grateful. Our mom recently fell in her garage. She laid on the garage floor...
Millie Hughes: League of Women Voters supports school funding change
The League of Women Voters of the the Lima Area supports Rep. Bob Cupp’s efforts to fix Ohio’s broken system of funding schools. The lame-duck session of the Ohio legislature could complete the three-year journey and model process of drafting The Fair...
Letter:
The great Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Donald Trump sure gave it a try. His place in history as one of our...
Letter: Trump shouldn’t concede until all ballots counted
Larry Donaldson wants President Trump to concede the election. I was not aware it was over. Could he wait until all the ballots are counted? Could he wait until a winner is declared? Could he wait until all the votes by dead people are thrown out? Could he wait until...
Letter: Marxist Democrats will get what they deserve
I just watched a commentator on Fox News tell us that the election was fair and honest based on what the people running the ballot counting in the contested states were saying. Gosh, it is truly amazing that the same people who mysteriously found thousands of ballots...
Letter: Voters didn’t support Trump and his circus
Just a note about the election: The vote is a private exercise in the voting boothing. A good example is when the circus comes to town, everybody goes to see the elephants as they’re paraded down the street. Just because President Trump got large crowds...
Letter: Who is behind Biden election?
What most people don’t realize is The Council on Foreign Relations, formed about 100 years ago, is hidden in plain site of the American people. It is a group of the wealthiest, most influential individuals including the media, Democrats, Republicans, Hollywood,...
Letter: Variety of opinions make the world turn
This is in response to Jim Krumel’s column in Monday’s paper. As a professional librarian (retired), I respect the Opinion page of The Lima News. I agree with some opinions, and others make me furious. However, Freedom of the Press is what they represent....
