Letters

The column about newsprint tariffs by Susan Rowell, publisher of The Lancaster News, shows that the writer has a short memory.
Not that long ago, most newsprint paper was made in the United States.
I can remember when a lot of old newsprint was recycled. The Boy Scouts and other organizations would go around and collect the old paper and sell it to the paper mills.
That all ended when NAFTA came along, and the U.S. mills could not compete with the lower-cost paper coming from Canada. The American mills closed down and put thousands of people out of work.

It is time we change our thinking on Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s is often treated as an aging issue, but we must acknowledge the public health consequences of a disease that impacts someone in the United States every 65 seconds.

What happened to the benches at Walmart? As Ronnie and I shopped there yesterday, we had to park a long way from the entrance.
After walking that far, Ronnie has to sit down. After a stroke and heart attack, you have to sit down after walking.
But the bench has been moved. They have a place at the pharmacy and nowhere else.

I read and re-read Sen. Greg Gregory’s guest column in the March 7 paper. The first half of the article expresses the senator’s anger, pain and frustration in response to the recent school shootings.
I understand and empathize with him. I admire his putting his conscience above his party. However, some of the remedies he proposes give me cause for concern.