AdvertisementGet the newsLETTER: ‘Power grab’ comment is chillingThe recent response by Sen. Mitch McConnell to legislation in the House of Representatives intended to make it easier for everyday...LETTER: Why won’t you help powerline opponents, Gov. Wolf?How to submit a letter to the editorTrendingOP-ED: Central Pa. youth baseball needs support for live-saving equipmentOP-ED: Misplaced loyalties in York CountyLETTER: Education unions should look in mirrorLETTER: Thanks to Congress for Alzheimer’s actLETTER: Immigration policy should be based in realityLETTER: Gun store owners should responsibilityEditorialsColumnsProject Vote SmartLETTER: Thanks to Congress for Alzheimer’s act Too often Alzheimer’s is treated as an aging issue, but it is a disease. Someone develops Alzheimer’s every 65 seconds in the United States. LETTER: Immigration policy should be based in reality Congress now has the opportunity to examine the facts concerning security at our southern land border with Mexico. LETTER: Gun store owners should responsibility Keeping guns out of criminal hands is a social responsibility we all have. Gun store owners have an even greater duty for the safekeeping of firearms. LETTER: What a government shutdown should look like By now, we all are painfully aware of what an extended U.S. government shutdown looks like. LETTER: Education unions should look in mirror When the Supreme Court ruled in June that government employees could no longer be forced to pay a union as a condition of employment, I was so inspired that I left my 20-year career as a public school teacher in Adams County to get the word out. OP-ED: Misplaced loyalties in York County As a longtime observer and a recent active participant in the southern York County political arena, I am baffled by the preferences of the majority of voters. LETTER: Recognize ‘forgotten soldiers’ of security Roughly 50 police officers are murdered in the line of duty each year, as are about 70 security officers. LETTER: Resolve to pass climate bill in new year The York Dispatch’s editorial “Wishes for a new, better year” highlighted the need to combat climate change while battling an administration that seems to want to destroy the environment. Get the Morning Update Email NewsletterThanks for signing up for the Morning Update newsletterWe're sorry.something went wrong.Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-559-3520Sign up for more NewslettersLETTER: Have we gone nuts for high school sports? As an old-time, 88-year-old former high school teacher, I just have to write this letter in response to a news story in your Sports Today section on Dec 27. 2018. OPED: WellSpan needs to pay its fair share There have been many examples of great partnerships throughout the years. Unfortunately, WellSpan’s partnership with the York community is not one of them. LETTER: Keep ‘The Party of Women’ at bay As a boy and young man my party's political heroes were Truman and Kennedy. LETTER: 94th House candidate pledges to donate part of salary One of the reasons that members of the voting public often resent their legislators is their ability to set themselves apart from the rest of us. LETTER: Dallastown council president calls for 911 Center investigation I have been following closely the ongoing issues with our York County 911 Center, and have grave concerns for the safety and welfare of our first-responders and residents. LETTER: Thanks to York Hospital staff I recently spent four days at York Hospital on the third floor (north). The care and treatment of the nurses toward me was nothing but outstanding. LETTER: Do your job, Scott Perry I just sent this to the man who is supposed to represent me, Scott Perry. "It was painfully obvious today that the man living in the White House has sided with Putin and the Russians against the U.S. government LETTER: Dallastown must ‘think out of the box’ The Dallastown school board wasted $60 million of the taxpayer’s money building the Intermediate School. This was done solely to reduce the number of students in each classroom. The teacher’s union wants no mor LETTER: Cents and sensibility immigration Not enough can be stated about the inhumanity that the United States is currently perpetrating on a vulnerable population of human beings, but today I want to acknowledge the financial cost to Pennsylvania residents. LETTER: Thank God for ‘brainless’ Wagner As a counter argument to John Fishel’s opinion, I am writing in response to his editorial in the June 27edition of the York Dispatch. LETTER: Pain and inhumane treatment at borders None of this matters today – right, left, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Independent. LETTER: GOP lawmakers need to grow up I have had it with these GOP redistricting tantrums. LETTER: Support young generation of activists As I read and watch TV news and see many high school students throughout Florida and several other states challenge the NRA, and state and federal officials over the deaths of 17 friends and teachers I am pleased to see them stand up for their rights LETTER: New maps may move political ideology to the middle I am astonished but not surprised to hear Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and Republican state Rep. Stan Saylor decry the newly redrawn congressional district maps. LETTER: Arm the teachers Gun free zones in schools and other places do not seem to be working. LETTER: Perry silent on pivotal issues Congressman Perry is the real farce... LETTER: A question on debt for Ryan For most of my life I've believed that America was on the side of the angels, that our democratically elected government tried to foster peace and good will and human rights in its dealings with other nations. LETTER: Re-elect Gov. Tom Wolf In two months, this writer will be 89 years young, living her entire life a few blocks from Gov. Tom Wolf, where we both inhabit homes occupied by family for several generations before. LETTER: We need great leaders on gun issue Great leaders will sacrifice guns to save children. Poor ones will sacrifice children to save guns. LETTER: Trade ‘thoughts and prayers’ for real action On Valentine's Day we had yet another school shooting — the 18th in 2018. This American tragedy does not exist in any other country. LETTER: Carbon fee proposal a win-win President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address failed to mention how climate change is affecting the country. That’s not to say everyone in Washington is avoiding the issue, however. On January 29, a bill was introduced by Rep. LETTER: Prison reform must take into account ‘5 percenters’ Truman Capote’s classic work “In Cold Blood” describes the 1959 murder of the Clutter family by 2 hardened criminals. While beautifully written, what is striking are the similarities and differences if this were to happen today. LETTER: War of words on abortion issue is unfair I attended the March for Life rally in Washington D.C. on a trip sponsored by Sen. Scott Wagner. The media did not give as much coverage to this event as they did for the Women’s March. LETTER: Barnes’ essay was on point I appreciate your recent opinion essay submitted by Dr. Mary Barnes. It was right on the mark regarding Rep. Scott Perry. I wholly support her views. LETTER: Freedom Caucus — and Perry — foster dysfunction We can attribute much of today’s congressional dysfunction to our own U.S representative Scott Perry and his fellow members of the Freedom Caucus. LETTER: More press needed on leaders like Voni Grimes I did not know York advocate Voni Grimes, although I now wish that I would have. It was my loss based upon the accounts in local media, including The York Dispatch. LETTER: Our votes count My vote counts and so does yours. Or at least they should. Systems that try to limit my voice, my political power, my vote make me mad. It should make you mad too. LETTER: Ice Arena situation stinks After reading David Weissman’s two stories (Jan. 18) of ineptitude and good old boy chicanery at the (York City Ice Arena) rink it strikes me that one name stands out like a drum major. LETTER: Indivisible York condemns Trump’s comments Indivisible YORK believes in the inherent dignity and equality of all peoples throughout the world. We therefore condemn Donald Trump's racist and demeaning comments. LETTER: American dream must include immigrants This past year, President Donald Trump and his supporters are undermining this beautiful American ideal. LETTER: RADAR bill is a money grab A friendly reminder to state legislators: 2018 is an election year, and we ARE paying attention to your votes. LETTER: Libraries did not cause opioid crisis It concerns me when we take $300,000 from library programs that help build a well-educated, problem-solving community and spend it on treating an opioid crisis which is a symptom of a community that is neither well-educated or problem-solving. LETTER: Senator Leach should apologize, hand over power In his cavalier response to multiple allegations of initiating inappropriate sexual discussions and groping young female staffers, State Senator Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery County, incited further harm. LETTER: Celebrate Green Friday in 2018 Because rampant consumerism is not sustainable, in 2018 I propose our community celebrates the day after Thanksgiving as Green Friday. Following the day we focus on giving thanks, instead of buying more stuff we could focus on sharing our abundance. LETTER: The only solution is to get rid of guns Kudos for the Nov. 8 op-ed, Enough with useless thoughts and prayers. Shira Goodman got it 100 percent right. I love my country. I served four years in the military and fought in a major war. The way the country is going now makes me mad and sad. LETTER: Tax ‘reform’ is a major theft from the middle class I have spent considerable time over the past week trying to analyze the effects of the tax "reform" plans being proposed in Congress, both the House and Senate versions. Most PopularLETTER: Why won’t you help powerline opponents, Gov. 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