Warren must consider sharing of services
DEAR EDITOR: The city of Warren, like many communities in the Mahoning Valley, is struggling financially from population loss, dwindling revenues and increased costs of operations. Because Ohio law prohibits deficit spending, Mayor Michael O’Brien and City Council had to make some tough decisions recently in order to balance its 2009 budget. That included layoffs of 55 city employees, 31 of which were safety forces. Those layoffs were the result of city revenues dropping by $1.4 million in the last five years, while spending continued to rise including a $2.2 million increase in the police and fire budgets during that time. The mayor has been widely criticized for the layoff actions this year. We believe the mayor is doing the right thing — right-sizing a city work force in a community that is seeing significant population and revenue loss. The facts speak for themselves.
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DEAR EDITOR:
As a former resident of Warren and still having all my family in Warren it makes me concerned about the city laying off all these firefighters.
Traffic cameras will send people elsewhere
DEAR EDITOR:
Again we have the subject of traffic cameras. First it was for safety, now money. While I do not want to see layoffs, cameras are not the answer.
Some thoughts on New Year resolutions
DEAR EDITOR:
This is in response to the editorial regarding resolutions for the New Year. Interesting. Let’s take them one at a time.
For U. S. Rep. Tim Ryan.
It’s no wonder the economy is getting bad
DEAR EDITOR:
I was thinking of the different levels of financial wealth that American law applies to people.
A year or so ago a man got caught stealing a loaf of bread because his family was hungry.
Columnist got two things right this time
DEAR EDITOR:
Like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, Pat Buchanan got two things right in his latest column: ‘‘Like Prohibition in Hoover’s phrase, globalism is ‘an experiment, noble in purpose, that has failed.
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