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Dem chair demands a coronation

Opinion: It didn’t take long for Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras to nudge John A.


Mayor’s race has an ‘X’ factor

Opinion: If more blacks than whites vote in Tuesday’s election for mayor of Youngstown, DeMaine Kitchen, who


Ohio Dems can’t catch a break

Opinion: Republican Gov. John Kasich may have found the antidote to political poison he ingested in 2011 when


Austintown wins battle of water

Opinion: The city of Youngstown rolled the dice in its bid to supply drinking water to the racino in


Watch for political retribution

Opinion: Adherents of conventional political wisdom say that Youngstown mayoral candidate DeMaine Kitchen is


Democrats in Valley snubbed

Opinion: It was a throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks question: Why isn’t there anyone from the


Grand Wizard of KKK?

Opinion: What if Jamael Tito Brown, who is black, had won the Democratic primary for Youngstown mayor and