Letters

Another tradition of life, as some know it… gone. Daily paper read, walk to paper box, coffee and mind exercise… gone. Yes, news can be digested on a digital screen, but you can also read a book the same way. Many of us still prefer the book or newspaper in hard copy.

I, too, will be canceling my Lima News subscription as it goes digital. Two days a week doesn’t get it.

We know the risk of cancer increases with age. People with Medicare coverage comprise the majority of the 11.75 million in Ohio who will die from cancer this year. Detecting cancer early could prevent many of these deaths.

First, congratulations to The Lima News on recently receiving the Ohio top newspaper award from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors, and congrats to the 23 Lima News staff members honored in Division IV.

Unfortunately, a few weeks ago our family lost my father. On the day of his funeral, we were traveling down Main Street in Lima, and there was a construction company working on the corner of Main and Spring.

Surprise, Donald Trump wants to be president again. Unsurprisingly, he is motivated in his quest for all the wrong reasons. Outrage is not policy; anger is not vision; revenge is not a platform.

The activities at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are as disturbing as any video of violence I’ve ever seen in history. The activity of so many of the participants was as blatantly malicious as those in Milwaukee when their city erupted in violence a few years ago. Or those individuals that chose to riot in cities all over the country after the L.A. Rodney King incident on March 3, 1991. Or, more recently, following the George Floyd murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police department.

There’s a TV commercial where a man says local media is essential to knowing local politics, events and issues only local news “should” deliver. Lima/Allen County is about to know what lack of information access feels like. Media is a business, likely mismanaged, but an entity nevertheless. The Lima News has announced their done deal being enacted, changes already established and good luck suckers (sorry, I mean, citizens). Just another change in Allen County, on its pathway to success.

Wednesday’s Trump town hall was a disgraceful propaganda event to promote a wannabe dictator.

To read in the paper on May 10th that you are only going to print and deliver the paper on Wednesday and Saturday was very upsetting. I know it will be online. I know people who are not into computers and the internet and look forward to the paper every day, especially people who are or almost homebound. It’s an important time in their day.