This letter is directed to those who are in charge of the Medicaid funding.

The funds for mental health were cut using under-the-radar cuts. The board seems willing to provide the much-needed funding for mental health, but this is not the position of the governor.

John Kasich has let the ax fall on the Department of Job and Family Services. He will lie as usual. When the ax falls on the elderly and mental heath services for them, he is the center of all that happens.

He has placed the blame of mental health on the Department of Job and Family Services when the real blame falls on his shoulders. He fails to realize that the deaths of many in nursing home facilities are on his shoulders, but he does not seem to care.

The only thing he cares about for sure is to be re-elected on the shoulders of the dead who have died prematurely due to lack of mental health care.

One wonders, from here, where else he will go? He has tried to cut funding to the children and been denied. Where else will he go?

He does not seem to realize, or does not care, that mental health is as important as physical health.

One has to wonder, where will this madness of the current governor stop?

He has already cut the funding of the best and latest juvenile facility.

Does he stop there or is it that the southern part of Ohio has little meaning to him due to votes?

Bernard Carter

Ironton

Effort to get Coy Bacon in Hall of Fame moving forward

The Friends of Coy Bacon would like to thank everyone who has signed our petition for the induction and enshrinement of Coy into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton.

It can be found at www.ipetitions.com/petition/coybaconforthehall/

We now have 377 signatures on our petition although we would ask if you sign to please use no nicknames, aliases or also-known-as signatures as such have cost us 20 signatures on our effort.

Glenn Robinson

Friends of Coy Bacon

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