Editor, Times-Union: I found it amusing seeing people protesting “No Kings” recently because they are too afraid to admit that it is actually a “We hate Trump” rally because if Trump were an actual king the number of protests against a King Trump would be zero, because those who did protest would go to prison.

Editor, Times-Union: Let’s get this straight: The Republicans have Elon Musk dumping millions of dollars into their campaigns. DNI seized Georgia voting records (deemed true and valid years ago) to supposedly find fraudulent ballots. They have gerrymandered states in order to disenfranchise minority voters. They have gutted the Voting Rights Act — thanks to bought and paid for SCOTUS judges. They have posted election deniers in state and federal roles overseeing elections. They are considering placing ICE and Feds near voting places to try to intimidate voters. They are trying to confiscate voter lists through the USPS hoping people will not get ballots until the states hand over their election data. They have sidelined CISA (the agency that guards elections from foreign interference), and they have threatened election workers with prosecution.

Editor, Times-Union: This is a public apology letter to Officers James Hastings and James Curtis.

Editor, Times-Union: It has been the mantra of the left since Trump started his second term and a fact that the left can’t run from. The “Affordability Crisis” manifested itself from the very beginning of the Biden administration. The first thing the Dems and Biden did when they took over control of the government was declare a “war on fossil fuels.” They shut down construction of the Keystone pipeline, eliminating over 14,000 jobs along with erasing future oil producting from Canada to the Gulf of America. They also stopped future exploration for oil on public property.

Editor, Times-Union: I remember when we used to teach that every life is sacred, even at conception - a new person with new DNA. I remember when everyone knew we were created in the image of God, both male and female, and God said it was very good! Forgive me, Lord, if I ever voted for a candidate that believed human life is disposable.

Editor, Times-Union: I find it amazing that someone is trying to blame one person for the ills of the country, and failing on a level that borders with obsession, and lunacy. Are prices going up? Sure. Are things more expensive? Sure. But the level of TDS to claim that he is the only cause for everything being worse is like saying Edwin Smith is the reason the Titanic sank.

Editor, Times-Union: Hear ye, hear ye to all low-educated voters, the county blowhard has spoke. Yes, Sargent Shultz has spoken.

Editor, Times-Union: We know that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Maybe the symbol of the Democrat Party should be the wandering Alzheimer’s patient because Joe Biden seemed like one when he was president. Also, Democrats remember what didn't happen and forget the bad that they are responsible for. Also, their vision seems to stop in front of their face.

Editor, Times-Union: Last month, the Catholic Church beatified Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. For those unaware, Beatification is the next step in the process of becoming a saint which gives him the title “Blessed” and allows for limited veneration. Many Catholics view Sheen as a hero and have been waiting for this day for a long time.

Editor, Times-Union: Over the past few weeks, Kosciusko County officials have taken several important steps involving the county’s Flock camera program. The cameras have come down. The County Council stopped future funding. The commissioners declared the Flock contract invalid and dissolved the Flock Donation Fund.

Editor, Times-Union: I would like to give a big thank you to Etna Elevator, Runnings, TSC Paws and Claws for donating bird seed for Mason’s Health Care.

Editor, Times-Union: I hereby present numbers calculated by the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator. Here is their estimate of “the monthly income needed to maintain a modest but not adequate standard of living. This includes housing, food, childcare, transportation, and other necessities, but not discretionary spending … for a married couple with four children (ages 4, 8, 12, and 16), living in the U.S. ... For example, in a mid-range Indiana county: monthly amount needed is $6,800 - $7,200, or an annual amount of $81,000 - $86,400.”

Federal Deficit Amendment Editor, Times-Union: Fiscal Year Deficit(-) or Surplus (+)

Editor, Times-Union: We need to go back to 3 branches of government. We need the legislature to be a separate branch from the executive branch.

Editor, Times-Union: The litigation surrounding the LITE Recovery House in Leesburg concerns a house, but its outcome matters to people who need a place to begin again.

Gas Prices & Government Editor, Times-Union: Is there anyone else, besides me, who is fed up with the ridiculous high prices of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and other oil-based products.

Editor, Times-Union: As the current administration in Washington, D.C., pushes for territorial expansion of the United States by repeated demands to bring Greenland into the American Union and now looking at incorporating Micronesia and Marshall Islands as U.S. territories, the status of current U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands should be changed in regards to their ability to participate in presidential elections. These five territories participate in the presidential primary election but not the general election due the fact they are not states and are not part of the Electoral College. There is a precedent for the residents of non-states to be allowed to vote, the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution ratified in 1961, which allowed the residents of Washington, D.C., to vote after nearly 160 years after the enactment of the District of Columbia Organic Act.

Editor, Times-Union: Someone wrote that Russia, China, North Korea, and European nations have atomic bombs and we don't attack them. Yet we attacked Iran and it doesn't have nuclear weapons. As Homer Simpson would say, "Well, Duh. You don't attack a nation that has nuclear weapons or they'll use theirs against us."

Editor, Times-Union: At a Monday evening Plan Commission hearing regarding housing development in the city, I suggested a change in the Warsaw Zoning Ordinance regarding one of the standards for a variance. The city attorney said he would need to research, but ventured an opinion anyway.

Editor, Times-Union: I recently read of a very small group of homeowners at Lake Tippecanoe wanting to create a walking trail around the lake. This is one of the most absurd ideas I've heard in a long time. This is unnecessary, 100% unworkable, and I can confidently say, unwanted by probably 98% of Lake Tippecanoe property owners.

Editor, Times-Union: I live behind Walmart in Yellow Apartments here in Warsaw.

Editor, Times-Union: Many questions arise when we the taxpayers ask how our federal income tax money is spent. The most obvious answers relate to the war in Iran (which we the people never sanctioned), the questionable and often cruel detaining, abduction, and/or incarceration of men, women and children whom the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security deem not worthy of remaining free in the U.S., and the growing number of Donald Trump’s vanity projects in and around our nation’s capital.

Editor, Times-Union: There is a bus stop that in my opinion is located in a very dangerous place. It is on the street that is located between Walmart and Lowe’s. The bus stop is in the westbound traffic lane on this busy street. All traffic traveling in both directions have to go around the bus to the eastbound lane where their vision for this lane change is obstructed by the bus parked in west bound lane. This looks to me like an accident waiting to happen.

Editor, Times-Union: This year, Ukraine got involved in the Iran War by bombing Iranian shipment vessels allegedly carrying weapons between Iran and Russia while Russia has been pushing to resupply Iran’s weapons. The U.S., meanwhile, has been going after countries, like Iran and Venezuela, that provide China with oil. Keeping in mind that all these countries are allies or enemies in some way or another, it’s probably worth asking: At what point do the current wars count as WWIII?

Editor, Times-Union: I’m fed up with all of this nonsense/foolishness over so-called “transsexuals,” and the controversy involving “women’s sports”!