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We can fix Mill Creek now

Opinion: On Monday, it will be one month that the pastoral waters of Mill Creek MetroParks have been closed


There is a way to keep city sewage out of Mill Creek

Opinion: The Confederate flag dropped from atop the South Carolina Capitol grounds Friday – a move that few


Tressel and the art of caring, and not caring

Opinion: Vindy Talk Radio hosted Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel recently to talk about his


Boardman band keeps rolling

Opinion: Blake Windt grabs his toy of X-Men superhero Charles Xavier and whooshes it around the air in front


Parking situation – the unpretty lineman of downtown success

Opinion: The city of Youngstown is finishing a brand-spanking new parking lot on West Federal Street in the


Values of the Green Man

Opinion: Some big lessons grew out of a little 50-cent toy


Pulling threads of a Valley war hero

Opinion: This Friday will be 71 years since Youngstown’s William Roble flew off into the skies over France,


Love through the pain

Opinion: The charred remains of this Powers Way home are – and should be – testament to the evilness that can


A thank-you, 40ish years later

Opinion: A street in Boardman is named for Frank Stadler, who lived a colorful life early in the 20th century


For Mahoning, what will May bring?

Opinion: I enjoy some pretty spirited exchanges with our sheriff, Jerry Greene, and I may have had our most-


48 hours embedded with 910th (and others)

Opinion: The Youngstown Air Reserve Station and its resident detachment, the 910th Airlift Wing Mission,


2 events showcase teens, tech

Opinion: People tend to have a bit of fatigue with today’s technology and its impact on kids. “I can only


She dared to achieve

Opinion: It’s an improbable path from the dusty cotton fields of Mississippi to the glorious commencement of


WKBN picks wrong foe

Opinion: I generally enjoy my media friends in the Mahoning Valley. This spring at the Angels of Easter


The little white lady who could

Opinion: Amid the sea of people last weekend at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., I was a tad