News Stories for March 2010
Stories for Wednesday, March 31
A lost friend
I had a friend who got a serious glass cut and bled to death because she didn’t have insurance. She didn’t call for help. She just laid down and died. If she had had insurance, she could have called an ambulance, been taken to a hospital, and saved. It is ...
<b>‘Time for rationality to prevail ...’</b>
I am once again dismayed by the behavior of John Boehner. He finally came out March 24 with words against the violence that is targeting members of Congress who participated in a perfectly legal vote on health care reform.However, the reality is that, earlier in the day, he was quoted ...
Stories for Tuesday, March 30
Filthy high school
I went up to Middletown High School March 28 to watch my granddaughter play in a basketball game. I could not believe the condition and how filthy that school is on the outside and inside. I graduated from Middletown in 1965 and I always believed in “purple pride.” Somehow along ...
<b>‘An easy job’</b>
Since I have a lot of gray whiskers, I remember when a congressman or senator who voted 100 percent party line was a bad choice because he no longer voted in the interests of his constituency or the country. Why pay for that person’s staff, travel and other expenses when ...
<b>‘Don’t be deluded’</b>
Having recently attended a conference on sound (honest) money, I was much amused by the AP article of Feb. 11, titled “Americans regaining lost wealth.” Does anyone really believe that, because the dollar amounts in stock market portfolios have risen, the nation is wealthier? All of a sudden, is there ...
Stories for Monday, March 29
Just 10 questions
The census commercials keep telling us about the 10 questions on the census. The census is supposed to be about one question. How many people live in the residence? The census is not designed to ask us how many toilets we have or anything else that is not the business ...
Menards project slated to resume?
FAIRFIELD TWP. — When the Menards home improvement store project went on hold in June 2009, company officials said it was only a matter of “when” it will resume.Now, the “when” has been projected to be sometime this spring season, said Skylor Miller, Fairfield Twp. assistant administrator.Miller said he was ...
Stories for Friday, March 26
Gross violations of decorum
To the congressman who yelled out “baby killer” on the floor and then apologized because he said his emotions were just running so high: Do we elect children on the Republican side to be in the House? And why do they think they can get away with these gross violations ...
<b>‘Arm everyone’</b>
In response to the March 19 editorial (“Going out to eat? Pass the bullets”):Because of the degree of violence and total disrespect for human life in our country today, there should be a federally mandated law, stating that every law-abiding citizen of legal age be required, at all times, to ...
<b>‘How inhumane’</b>
When did this all start? I’m referring to the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong with the thinking process of a number of our younger generation. Why would a 6-year-old child get his father’s gun and kill his 7-year-old playmate? Why would a high school student bring ...
Going too far
In response to the letter about trying these children who allegedly killed the alpaca as adults: That is going a little bit too far. Young adults’ and teens’ brains aren’t fully developed. They don’t use reasoning and thinking properly. Sure, they have to be punished and I am an animal ...
<b>‘The biggest lie in history’</b>
Why don’t these two Miami University professors (guest columnists Richard Erlich and Roland Duerksen) call progressives what they really are — socialists, Marxists or communists. Why do we have to be inundated with all of these progressive columns?I have 21 years in the health insurance business, and I can tell ...
<b>‘England’s footsteps’</b>
I have followed this health care bill closely and I have yet to hear anything about how Europe became almost fully socialized.Most of my family lives in England so I have an inside view of what socialization is like. In September 1945, just a few months after the war in ...
Threats are uncalled for
I am so aggravated at the Republican Party. They were responsible for all these threats against members of the Democratic Party. I used to vote as an independent. That stopped with George Bush. I will never vote for a Republican again. Threats that have been made toward Democrats and their ...
Stories for Thursday, March 25
Tired of Madison
Finally I can open the Middletown Journal without seeing full color pictures about Middletown Madison basketball teams. Yes, they had some success, but it is not like they are a state power from year to year. We didn’t get this kind of coverage when our Middies were on the verge ...
<b>‘This train service is long overdue’</b>
I am writing to voice my support for Ohio’s proposal to link eight initial stations between Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati with modern, 79-mph passenger trains. Ohio’s 3C trains will be the most comfortable, least expensive way to travel and offer the fastest trains for a new-start rail service in ...
Stories for Wednesday, March 24
Crumbling parking garage
After seeing the pictures in the March 22 Journal of the downtown parking garage, I think somebody ought to investigate the concrete company and the contractor that built the parking garage and some of the politicians who were in office at the time it was built. ... This concrete shouldn’t ...
<b>‘Who is holding this board accountable?’</b>
What is the role of the community, staff and students in communication and decision-making in the Carlisle Local School District? Since January, the Carlisle Board of Education has been holding atypical, frequent executive sessions.CTA members attending the public portion (of the meetings) noted that the board’s treasurer, superintendent and operations ...
Stories for Tuesday, March 23
Don't blame the drivers
I appreciate the editorial regarding how people need to slow down in the construction zones on I-75. Yes, that is true. ... However, to blame the drivers exclusively for all the accidents is inaccurate. There are some really bad decisions being made by construction companies or ODOT (Ohio Department of ...
<b>‘My job now’</b>
I am a mom and grandmother and am concerned about the evolution of our country. I am retired but now have a new job. I realized what is happening to our nation about nine months ago. My job now is to do everything in my power to save America from ...
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