Caregivers deserve our gratitude
Thanks for Rebecca Schmidt’s column on nursing (“Nursing that dream in my heart” May 9). I have been a licensed practical nurse for over 25 years, working in long term care. Nursing has been a...
View ArticleWe need cooperation in Congress
President Obama is not responsible for this economic crisis. Under George Bush, the Fed raised the interest rate over and over and over until people with variable rate loans could no longer pay them. I...
View ArticleFocus should be on crime, not race
I was very happy to read in The Enquirer that the incident of several youth beating a man to within an inch of his life and causing severe physical and emotional damage to the 46-year North College...
View ArticleFree preventive health care services available
On my drive to school I heard a commercial on the radio about Planned Parenthood and the Medicaid extension changes. After some research I discovered that many Ohioans making less than $30,000 a year...
View ArticleAttorney’s choice of words amusing
In the September 27th Enquirer, attorney Bob Sanders is quoted as saying, “I think we are living at a time of hysteria over prescription drug abuse, where a lot of good doctors are going to get drug...
View Article‘Through the Night’ a play worth seeing
Saturday my wife and I attended a performance of “Through the Night” at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Unfortunately, about one quarter of the seats in the small Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre...
View ArticleEnquirer downplays Obama’s accomplishments
Regarding “Next: gridlock likely”: It was most interesting that The Enquirer found it so appropriate too only see in President Obama’s victory the continuation of gridlock. Again an attempt to...
View ArticleLincoln taught tough lessons – not by words but action
Wary students might well be skeptical at the suggestion that President Lincoln passed the 13th Amendment in 1865 principally by the aid of timely “presidential schmoozing ” of congressmen just before...
View ArticleHistoric firearm is not worth good of country
I own a gun. I have an 1890’s Springfield rifle from the Spanish-American War, inherited through three generations. I hope to leave it to one of my sons. After the Great War to end all wars, WWI, my...
View ArticleCincinnati has good cause to admire Oscar Robertson
I want to thank The Enquirer and Bill Koch for the article “The king and his courtside” (March 12) about Oscar Robertson. I have seen him around town for many years giving of his time, energy, and...
View ArticleCapitalism is flawed, but productive
Capitalism is by no means a perfect system, but it is the best man has come up with so far. As Fareed Zakaria, a prominent Indian journalist, said, “With all its flaws, capitalism remains the most...
View ArticleHere’s hoping that Doc keeps telling us his tales
I want to thank The Enquirer for keeping Paul Daugherty on our team. His column “Is Jason Collins a good man?” (May 6), as always, scored! He consistently informs, challenges, commiserates, entertains,...
View ArticleKeep the comedy where it belongs – comics section
I only took one journalism class in college so I may be wrong, but Wednesday The Enquirer had articles about Obama’s top government officials having secret e-mail accounts, Obama’s IRS relentlessly...
View ArticlePolice shouldn’t try to be sneaky
I read with utter disbelief the quote from Sgt. Steve Raker that it’s good to have patrol officers on motorcycles because that way “you can sneak up on people” (“Sheriff’s office putting motorcycles on...
View ArticleSave money and fly out of an airport other than CVG
Candace McGraw’s guest column “CVG will do whatever it takes to get you here, there and back home again” (July 18) stated, “CVG offers a top-notch travel experience.” What she conveniently left out was...
View ArticleCan Boehner do the honorable thing?
Dear John, There comes a time when it is honorable, albeit figuratively, not literally, to fall on ones sword. Robert Zimmerman, North College Hill
View ArticleQuality of laws matters much more than quantity
You can include me as an American that distrusts our dysfunctional government (“Many distrust government to handle emergency” Oct. 23). I think it is especially sad, however, that we have an “educated”...
View ArticleCincinnati needs pension reform
Cincinnati’s politicians and special interests are using misleading “smoke & mirrors” rhetoric to oppose Issue 4, a pension reform designed to prevent Cincinnati from ending up like recently...
View ArticleSewer not only rates set to soar
The Enquirer reported that Metropolitan Sewer District’s customers can expect to pay a 6 percent increase in sewer rates next year, if so decided by the Hamilton County Commissioners. It was also...
View ArticleFrisch’s making a mistake in soda switch
It was announced Monday that Frisch’s Big Boy will be switching from Coca Cola to Pepsi products. I am outraged by this. Does the company realize what they’re doing? I can speak for all of us when I...
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