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Letters To The Editor

President Is Committing Economic Arson

To The Reader’s Forum: Mr. Trump’s firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer was a dangerous overreach that damaged the credibility of federal statistical data relied on by American businesses, Wall Street, and even other countries. Trump’s impulsive move was ...

Congress Should Handle Tariffs, Not The President

To The Reader’s Forum: I am not a lawyer but I can read and understand simple English. The US Constitution says in Article 1, Section 8 : “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises”. It does NOT say that Congress can delegate that power to ...

Release The Epstein Files

To The Reader’s Forum: There’s a lot of news lately about the “Epstein Files.” The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), no “liberal rag” mind you, reports that Trump’s name is in the “Epstein Files” to which Trump has sued the WSJ. Just having Trump’s name in the files does not mean ...

Thruway Tolls Are An Investment in Safety and Reliability

To The Reader’s Forum: In response to the In Our Opinion piece titled, “Overnight Toll-Free Trips on Thruway Worth a Try,” While the idea of removing tolls, even for a few hours overnight, may sound appealing, the truth is removing tolls on the Thruway would cut off the very ...

Trump/Langworthy Voters Will Lose Benefits

To The Reader’s Forum: I wrote this letter to Rep. Langworthy. What’s the rush to get the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” passed. Surely, you could take your time to make sure the negative drawbacks of the bill could be ironed out. The obvious, big problems with the bill are 1) that ...

Is It Really Name- Calling If It’s True?

To The Reader’s Forum: To the recent commentator who admonished a friend to “quit calling voters you don’t agree with childish names” and in the next sentence affirmed his vote for Trump; I ask “are you serious?” There is a Wikipedia page listing all the eighth-grade names Mr. ...