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Make it work. Register and vote.
It’s your constitutional right. Your vote is your voice. When we vote, we are actually telling elected officials and lawmakers how we feel about education, public safety, Social Security, health care and other important issues.
Our children are depending on us to represent their voices too. Because our children can’t vote, we have to do it for them. That’s how we make our concerns about schools, safety, housing and other issues heard. When we vote, we are looking out for our kids and their futures.
Our men and women in the armed forces give their lives for our freedom and our right to live in a democratic nation. This includes our right to vote. If you don’t vote, you are only cheating yourself and the future of this country. Get out and vote.
Niles Carey
Ashtabula
Opinion
February 18, 2012 Letters to the Editor: Niles Carey
Exercise right to vote
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Story engulfed in convergence of new, old mass media
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Vera E. Pentz
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Pedestal topples and relationship falters
Have you ever wondered how teachers and the public became polarized from each other.
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Aug. 11 Letters to the Editor: David Thomas
“With the recent disapproval from our county residents of the three local school levies, the time for a new education funding model has been strongly mandated. -
Aug. 11 Letters to the Editor: Ron Yarian
The editorial opinion (7/29) on the Gun Control Debate was at least an honest attempt to offer some response to address a serious problem.
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Aug. 11 Letters to the Editor: Edith A. Sickler
Your editorial in the July 28 Opine section of the Star Beacon in regard to slow drivers causing accidents, while praising fast drivers, really pulled my chain, so to speak.
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Aug. 11 Letters to the Editor: Mary Ellen Blake
There was a time when the mantra of liberalism was, “I may not agree with what you say (or think), but I will defend to death your right to say it.”
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Aug. 11 Letters to the Editor: Thomas Pickett
I am not interested in arguing over whether or not pit bulls or any other breed should be banned from any area.
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