Letters to the Editor

Extend ACA Credits, Then Find Real Solutions

Editor, News-Register: Listening to the debate in D.C. on the issue of extending the Affordable Care Act health care tax subsidies brings me back to the Clinton years. The arguments some in Congress are using are the same as those they used to defeat the Clinton plan and the arguments used later to try to defeat the ACA: “If people get to have a choice where to spend their health care money, it will bring down the cost of health care. We need to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals. People should get the money not the insurance companies.” These are great talking points, but our ...

Time for Notre Dame To Put Some Fight in Irish

Editor, News-Register: A Tell it to Sweeney editorial cartoon shows the poor children who have their noses pressed up against the bakery window. Those children, who never have the chance to enjoy the frosted Shamrock treats, cannot fathom why the players would give up chance to play Notre Dame Football. The College Football Playoff Committee’s decision to leave Notre Dame out of the 2025 playoffs’ 12 teams has brought out the schools’ eggs against the wall coaching philosophy. We will take the ball and go home and sit in the dorm room and mope and pout. I did not get my own ...

Eliminating Safeguards Puts Animals at Risk

Editor, News-Register: The Marshall County Animal Shelter’s decision to eliminate essential safeguards — such as background and veterinary checks — puts animals at grave risk. This change was apparently made at the behest of Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS), a multimillion-dollar Utah-based group that pressures shelters nationwide to adopt reckless policies aimed at meeting arbitrary “no-kill” targets. In Indianapolis, a BFAS partner shelter fired two employees for trying to prevent convicted abusers from adopting animals. The facility had started conducting criminal ...

Thank You for Support of Steubenville-Jefferson County Library

Editor, News-Register: Thank you to those who took the time to vote yes for the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County’s 1-mill, five-year operating renewal levy once again. The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County is a county-wide library system with branches in Adena, Brilliant, Dillonvale, two in Steubenville, Tiltonsville, Toronto and bookmobile service. We look forward to the opening of the Bergholz branch next year. Our mission is simple. A public library serves all people of all ages and all viewpoints. It is the library’s commitment to provide ...

Can We Stop Going in Circles Over the Homeless?

Editor, News-Register: Nobody wants to see anyone sleeping on the streets, nobody wants to live in an unhealthy or unsafe city, and we certainly don’t want to become the “Mecca of the Homeless” in the Ohio Valley, as one councilman has stated. Yet here we are again. Wheeling once again closed a homeless encampment, and the reaction is exactly what it has been in years’ past. People are angry, rallies are forming, Facebook comments sections are exploding with some of people’s worst thoughts, and emotions are pouring into the City Council chambers. At the Nov. 4 Council ...

What Is President Trump Doing in the Caribbean?

Editor, News-Register: Why has Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered our largest, most lethal aircraft carrier with supporting destroyers and guided missile ships to sail near Venezuela? Trump says it’s to stop drug traffickers, yet, at the same time, he released from prison the Honduran ex-president, who was convicted of massive cocaine trafficking into our country. The aircraft carrier was moved from the Eastern Mediterranean, near the Ukraine conflict. Trump seems to be abandoning our allies in Europe, giving Russia the opportunity to expand its war-stolen territory in ...