Dear Editor:
For many voting-age residents, the upcoming elections are not so much about political parties, ideology, or labels. They’re about something much simpler that affects all of us, regardless of partisan differences. Namely, the cost of daily living.
Do you know anyone who recently bought anything without being alarmed over the price?
This runs across the board, with continued high cost for most everything — groceries, gas, diesel, fertilizer, housing, electricity, healthcare, interest rates on mortgage and credit cards, equipment and electronics, childcare, education…you name it. Especially for people who are otherwise not much interested in politics, one thing is painfully obvious…inflation consumes your budget.
The causes of that inflation include the war in Iran and how it has cut off oil supply, tariffs on imports, deportation of legal immigrants needed to work in construction and farming, and uncontrolled growth of data centers that jack up the prices we pay for utilities and construction materials.
For many voters, the bottom line in the mid-term elections is straightforward — whether to vote for government officials who tolerate these inflationary policies, or for candidates who’ll fight to change them.
Skip Halpern ~ Luray, Va.
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Skip Halpern…please provide evidence of “deportation of legal immigrants.” Because if they are “legal”, then I am confident they are not being deported. Then please provide evidence of “illegal immigrants” being deported…you know…for comparison purposes to be analyzed by reasonable adults.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia — deported despite a court order protecting him from deportation to El Salvador. His case is a little different: he was not a green-card holder. An immigration judge had granted him withholding of removal in 2019, meaning the government was specifically prohibited from sending him to El Salvador because of the danger he faced there. He had authorization to work and lived with his family in Maryland. Nevertheless, the administration sent him to El Salvador’s CECOT prison in March 2025. The government subsequently acknowledged in court that his removal to El Salvador resulted from an administrative error.
The Supreme Court left in place the requirement that the administration “facilitate” his release from custody in El Salvador and ensure his case was handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent there. He was eventually returned to the United States in June 2025 to face separate criminal charges, which he has contested.
Wendy, he wasn’t a legal immigrant and had already had a deportation order. He’s also a suspected human trafficker. You libs simply make martyrs out of career heinous criminals and then call anyone who disagrees with you a racist. It’s why your party isn’t taken seriously.
Skip, if you’re in a subversive way advocating for voting for a democrat, please miss me with that nonsense. Inflation was worse during the Biden administration. Secondly, ITS THE UNIPARTY PEOPLE. A Dem will tell us how there should be Medicare for all but would never dare say there needs to be legislation to control or lower medical costs. A republican just simply won’t address it. They all work for the same lobbyists and same donors. To make the claim one party will lower costs means you’re living in a fantasy world.
Now that we are buying diesel from Russia, who in turn uses our money to buy oil from Iran, who then uses our money to attack us, close the Strait of Hormuz, and drive up oil prices, the circle of stupid is now complete. They are not all the same.
Skip didn’t complain during the Biden years of inflation and high oil prices. In short, he and his Page County Democratic Committee friends were glad the price of oil was high, because they believed it would increase electric vehicle sales and save the planet. Right Skip ?
Two of the main causes of inflation are 1. Lawyers, and 2. Islamic terrorism. Islam is driving up the price of oil because it’s just a mean, diabolical, blasphemous parody of the Christian religion. As an aside, the Koran teaches that Jesus didn’t die on the Cross. It explains that Allah, their fake god, substituted another man to fool the Jews, and that there never was any Resurrection. The Islamist version of Jesus, the Madhi is supposed to be living underground somewhere and will come out to cause Islam to be spread across the world. This is why the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps wants a nuclear weapon. To hasten and help the poor Madhi along with his fake destiny.
Could someone please translate this word salad?
Math is hard.
Further proof that radical religion and politics should not mix. I see a few churches in Page County have “Vote NO on All 3” signs on their property. If churches are going to engage in political messaging, they should lose their tax-exempt status. Period.