Letters to the Editor

Battling COVID-19

Editor, News-Register: According to a news article I read several months ago in the local newspaper, President Trump dismantled the National Security Council office of Global Health Security and Bio-Defense, an office initiated by former President George W. Bush, expanded under former President Barack Obama, but dissolved under President Trump in 2018. The purpose of this office, staffed by infectious disease specialists, was to be prepared for when, not if, a pandemic would strike. This current COVID-19 pandemic, that has already killed close to 200,000 Americans, might have ...

Keep Stars and Stripes

Editor, News-Register: Donald Trump’s latest threat to America’s freedom of the press hits our troops overseas. The Trump administration wants to block publication and end funding for the military newspaper, Star and Stripes. This comes as the latest news swept our nation overnight that our commander-in-chief considers fallen war heroes nothing but “losers,” according to an article published in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg. In that article, according to multiple sources that served Trump in the White House, he asked “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled ...

Zone Change Opposed

Editor, News-Register: I am writing to voice several concerns regarding the requested zone change that would allow medical offices to be built on Washington Avenue. Although I no longer live in Wheeling, I grew up on Washington Avenue and my parents still live there, so I am personally invested in the well-being of the neighborhood and the city as a whole. Here are my concerns about the rezoning and proposed construction of medical offices: 1. The possibility of added traffic entering and exiting Washington Avenue at the proposed building site seems dangerous and inadvisable. The ...

Help Minority Businesses

Editor, News-Register: Sometime in the early 1970s, an employee of Centre Foundry and Machine died unexpectedly. My memory isn’t so good if it was work related or not, but the employees thought taking a day off in memory of the deceased man would be a nice gesture. My father, who was in upper management at the still-functioning mill, thought of a better idea: work the next day and donate the one-day pay to the man’s family. Unfortunately, those employees didn’t agree with my late father’s idea, thus ending a happy ending to the story and positive memory for the man’s ...

Protect Postal Service

Editor, News-Register: I am writing concerning the crisis in the Postal Service. This vital entity is under attack by the president and his fellow Republicans. President Trump has pledged to “starve the Postal Service” of much- need funding while handing out relief money with ease to other businesses that are effected by the current pandemic. He has even gone so far as to call it “a joke.” Our local congressman, Bill Johnson, seems to think that the latest controversy was drummed up by Speaker Pelosi and her liberal left allies. He claims that Democrats conjured up yet ...

Stand Up and Fight

Editor, News-Register: I am flabbergasted that I haven’t heard the screams, “Oh No!” Where is the outrage? What in the hell is the matter with you? What am I talking about? Donald Trump and his no-nothings have set in motion the death of Social Security, Medicare, disability insurance, Medicaid, pre-existing insurance coverage and the Affordable Care Act. If this OK with you, then you are following the lemmings off the cliff into the abyss. You are probably saying, “Trump can’t, or wouldn’t, do that.” Then you have been asleep at the switch. Trump ...