I support health care reform for very personal reasons. I hope no other child in this country has to grow up suffering the many illnesses I and other children who lived in poverty without medical care endured -- children whose parents had no insurance, no way to pay for a doctor's visit, and families that never heard of a well child doctor's visit. Patricia Sowders Sandusky

Thumbs UP to smaller servings of government pork, according to Citizens Against Government Waste.

By MELISSA TOPEY topey@sanduskyregister.com SANDUSKY An 8-year-old boy was taken to the hospital as a precaution after being hit by a van when he apparently ran out onto McKelvey Street.

Cedar Fair's Apollo project suffered from a failure to launch, after unitholders forced an abort.

By RUFUS G.W. SANDERS, Register columnist What an impact the presidency of Barack Obama has had on this country! He has already left quite a legacy.

Too bad it became, if only briefly, a political football. City Commissioner Julie Farrar had a simple enough idea: a walk of fame of sorts, with bricks commemorating the achievements of local student athletes, in one of Sandusky's numerous parks. For starters, each brick in the walkway would recognize a former state champion.

Gloria Kattouah writes that we are a Christian nation. My acquaintances who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or atheists would strongly disagree with that statement, and would cite the U.S. Constitution for support. We are a nation built upon a foundation of Judeo-Christian laws and tradition, we have religious freedom in our private lives, but we have no established religion. Would Ms.

It never made sense: Erie County, whose unemployment rate rose, didn't qualify for federal Recovery Bonds because, through a statistical fluke, the number of officially unemployed people went down.

A tax increase can take many forms. For the owners of the former Maui Sands water park at Ohio 2 and U.S. 250 in Perkins Township, it was a whopping increase of almost $127,000 based on the property valuation used to assess property taxes in 2009.