Amtrak would change the game for Ohio. Here's why.

Think about trains when you are stuck in traffic

Love seeing the Jan. 4 article "Amtrak expansion in Ohio is still years away."

That is a real shame that we missed our chance to get on board with federal funds available to set up the Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati Amtrak route, providing infrastructure and operating funds for that route. Amtrak already has stations in Toledo, Cleveland and Toledo.

Columbus is the second largest metropolitan area in the US without Amtrak. We have over 4.7 million cars traveling on Ohio roads, which probably doubles with commercial trucks.

I urge you to support our state’s Ohio Rail Development Commission’s proposal for the CCDC route.

Looking to ride a train out of Columbus? Earliest bet if all goes right might be 2030.

I lived in the Norfolk area for 8 years and regularly traveled to DC on Amtrak, the trains were on time, quiet, convenient with cafe cars and clean restrooms and allowed you to work on the train.

What do they say, try it, you will like it?

Think about that when you are stuck in traffic trying to get into Cincinnati or Cleveland.

Get on board. Amtrak plan important for central Ohio

Be sure to read the article and do some research on how you will gain from Amtrak.

Support Amtrak.

Pete Kienle, Powell

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Attacks on queer children has deep history. We must stand up and fight back.

Ohio’s transgender exclusion laws are part of a 500-year project rooted in the oppressive and iniquitous manifest density of white Christianity.

This ideology targeted gender-expansive cultures, viewing them as a threat to its power and dominance. There is a rich history of eradicating cultures and spreading genocidal ideologies to eliminate queer communities globally.

The religion of whiteness distorts the teachings of a Palestinian Jew named Jesus, using them to justify settler colonialism. Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, mirrors the actions of Duncan Campbell Scott, who, in 1920, as deputy minister of Indian Affairs in Canada, tormented children and used religion and institutions to silence individuals.

Anti-trans bill must be stopped. Ohio may chase my family away just like Missouri did.

Thousands of First Nations children perished during colonial assimilation, their bodies discarded in unmarked mass graves.

Today, the deaths of queer children are exploited by international LGBTQ+ organizations for fundraising, while staying silent on the global genocide faced by queer children at the hands of shared oppressors.

House Bill 68. Mike DeWine is being called 'child mutilator.' Veto of unholy bill shows that's far from true

As a queer Black Filipino Christian in Ohio, my solidarity reaches to Haiti, Palestine, Congo, and Sudan, rejecting false definitions of whiteness and celebrating resistance. Ohio’s lawmakers cannot impose limited views of humanity. I am not free until all are free. I urge everyone to stand up and fight back.

Charles Abernathy, Columbus

Claudine Gay chase down typical

America needs to pay attention to this as it is indicative of the on-going, and not so progressive reconciliation or atonement regarding the racist agenda of destroying non-whites who “slip through the cracks” and ascend the historically reserved echelons of America’s institutions of higher education.

The recent attacks and purposeful chasing-down of President Claudine Gay of Harvard University to force her removal were bold, and a slap in the face to the notion of diversity, acceptance, fairness, and merit.

OSU Board could have learn from Harvard. Ex-Ohio State president didn't kowtow to Wexner Mafia.

Gay’s selection as president of the prestigious university was just too much to bear for some like the entitled rising star, and Trump sycophant Elise Stefanik, who made it her own appointed duty to take down Gay.

This country is not the shining city on the hill that some like to believe. The “gutter” is a better description of where “we the people” dwell.

Delmar L. McGee, Columbus

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: How Amtrak could change game for Ohio