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Justice unserved Dear Editor, I see in the Times Observer (Feb. 17) that First Assistant District Attorney Cody Brown withdrew drug delivery resulting in death charges, a first-degree felony and changed it to involuntary manslaughter against Christian L. Papalia. He also added possession of drug paraphernalia. It is stated in the article that maximum penalties for these offenses are both five years incarceration each, unless my calculator is wrong five plus five equals 10 years, not six to nine months. Pretty sure if I was in Warren and threw a brick in a store front window and ...

Paying high price

Dear Editor, If you’re really interested in where inflation is coming from – look at the stock market. It’s booming, it has been booming. It’s booming because those companies are making huge profits — which means they have been charging prices grossly in excess of their costs. Their costs include you, as an employee, and if you stay underpaid while their prices keep soaring — that’s inflation. Henry Ford had a maxim: you need to pay your employees enough they can afford to buy your products. But that’s gone by the boards. Since COVID and the supply chain ...

Left in the dark

Dear Editor, Fox News, according to its internal emails, appears to have broken the defamation law. Fox’s attacks on the Dominion Voting Systems Company — “airing information they knew was not true” and “pushing claims they knew were lies” to maintain viewership — “to give their viewers what the viewers wanted to hear” as opposed to presenting facts and opinions based on facts — was criminal, I would say. Fox News viewers may not be aware of the federal courts’ 61 decisions affirming “no” significant 2020 election fraud (no steal) or maybe they don’t ...

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Crossing the line Dear Editor, Honest news outlets and columnists, for some time, have reported the atrocious weakening of our southern border. Border patrol reports approaches from 170 different countries and that well over 2 million have rushed the border since President Joe Biden took office. And what about the estimated 600,000 “gotaways?” Where are they? What are they up to? Fentynal traffic and overdose deaths are a gruesome reminder of open borders. Illegal migrants have tramped through Arizona lettuce farms, contaminating the crops and have violated Texas ranches. The ...

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Overspending hurts youth Dear Editor: I am a 13-year-old scout in Boy Scouts of America Troop 8. As part of a requirement for a merit badge I am working on, I would like to share my thoughts about the country’s national debt. Today the U.S. national debt exceeds $31 trillion. It rises more than $1 million every 40 seconds. The level at which the national debt is growing is clearly unsustainable. In personal or family finances, small businesses or corporations, it is expected that citizens pay back their debts. Citizens are held accountable by law and should not borrow money ...

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Vote integrity matters Dear Editor, The 2020 Presidential election cannot be undone. Some think it’s childish to question or contest an election. Even if the outcome does not change, every person that throws their hat in the ring in America has the right to question when anomalies occur. There are more than enough problems with elections that need to be ironed out, yesterday, that still plague the integrity of electoral results. I would like to see results that precisely follow the law. Additionally, we need reforms that buttress the integrity of the results. There should not be ...