Letters to the Editor
Shutdown halts key programs like Medicaid and Rural Energy for America Program, cutting vital support to 900 rural hospitals and farmers, officials say.
- This past week, the federal government has ground to a halt and rural America feels it first and worst, with rural hospitals asking how long they can keep the lights on.
- Policy choices in Washington reallocated benefits to a pilot program for large corporate agricultural operations while Medicaid and REAP are being paused, critics say.
- Local economies, which rely on federal programs, face losses as REAP pauses, leaving farmers and small businesses without expected support for solar barn projects.
- Amid the stalemate, farmers, families and small-town residents say they merit better than partisan collateral, and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has broken from her party to prioritize health care access.
- Clarifying a common misconception, writers note that undocumented immigrants face a civil violation, not a crime, using a speeding analogy, while critics warn that rhetoric of an 'enemy within' deepens division.
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Letters to the editor: Oct. 22
Chesterfield lost a good man Paul Lafata, a one-term elected member of the Chesterfield Township Board then defeated, was it outside sources because Paul explained facts and figures of the spending of the township board. Paul didn’t need the job and not for personal gain he cared about the people of the Chesterfield community. If you’re sitting on our Chesterfield Township Board and answer to others outside of Chesterfield for personal gain resi…
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