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Corruption in Valley’s genetic code

Opinion: Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras wasn’t about to let this writer’s


Attack on store owner was obscene

Opinion: It would be a grave injustice to equate the unprovoked beating of the owner of a neighborhood store


Parking wars loom at YSU

Opinion: In the annals of dumb decisions made on the hallowed grounds of Youngstown State University, the one


Politics rears its ugly head

Opinion: To understand just how difficult it will be to change the court system in Mahoning County below the


Eliminate a Youngstown judgeship

Opinion: A cynic surveying the room may have said to himself, “It’s the largest gathering of freeloaders the


What’s in store for Macejko?

Opinion: Youngstown City Prosecutor Jay Macejko should have quit while he was ahead — because he now faces


Republicans overplay their hand

Opinion: Democrats in the Ohio General Assembly will be held up to public ridicule if they’re taken in by the