Speak Up: Reader says YMCA 'amazingly clean'

I do not consider the actions by PNC Bank to be a "public relations blunder." I am glad to see PNC Bank holding others accountable. I don't believe the bank encouraged the Recreation Center or "the most charitable foundation in Springfield" to default on their obligations. The process should be the same for all loan holders, from the wealthiest to the least wealthy.

When did the use of "retard" and "retarded" become OK? This is a very demeaning term hurtful to anyone with special-needs children. It should be hurtful to everyone. Please watch the words you use; they are just as insensitive as those used to refer to ethnic groups.

The Humane Society of the United States says gas chambers are an unacceptable method of euthanasia and strongly urge all agencies using gas to transition to euthanasia by injection. What does Clark County use?

CNN showed the racist screams of Tea Partiers on the Capitol steps. I was involved in the civil rights demonstrations. This white-supremcy group with their campaigns of intolerance must be stopped.

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin and I are all wealthy because we work. We don't stand in front of the government with our hands out, we actually work.

A fitting definition of the president's recently enacted health care bill should conclude with three words of wisdom from a once-popular weekly TV program: "gloom, despair and agony" on us.

Our president seeks billions of additional Yankee dollars to aid Haitians, a move which tells me he expects they will be voting our next presidential election.

In regards to surgeons under President Obama's health care reform: You're in luck. Millions of Ohioans are already on Medicaid, but wait four years and see how many more are subsidized. You'll have plenty of patients.

I went to the YMCA the other day. I had read some things saying that it is dirty. I just wanted to say it was amazingly clean when I went there and I really enjoyed it.