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You can’t kill all of us

To the editor: You can’t kill us all you know. You can’t kill all of us mothers. All of us nurses. All the protesters who appear out of nowhere by the thousands — whose people came from everywhere around the world for generations back — who step up and take the places of those ...

Who has the courage to stand for democracy?

To the editor: Beginning in 1943, our War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater titled Army Talks. The series was designed to help soldiers understand why we were at war with Hitler’s Germany and how being better-informed would help ...

Evidence

To the editor: Trump is getting hammered from every direction, and even his own allies are starting to say the quiet parts out loud. Fox News is now admitting most Americans blame Trump for higher food prices. The economy he promised to fix is becoming the thing that is dragging him down. ...

Trump and Putin

To the editor: Ever since World War II when Germany crossed the borders of Europe, Russia (USSR) became extremely paranoid. Even though Russia spans 11 time zones they want more: Witness Georgia, Ukraine, inroads into Belarus and Hungary. And how about our president: Changing the name of the ...

Prioritize the middle class

To the editor: As a Lee County resident,  I see first hand how the rising costs of housing has impacted the housing sector. Retail workers receive a starting salary of $15 to $18 with little purchasing power — $600 per week with 10% for federal taxes, 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45 % ...

Restore the Robert E. Lee statue

To the editor: The county and city of Fort Myers need to unilaterally start the process of returning the statue of Robert E. Lee somewhere in their jurisdictions. Why was his statue taken down? Robert E. Lee was a great man of faith, from Virginia, graduated second in his class at West Point ...