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NPR — a driving force in our family’s travels

Opinion: Customer-care representative Haywood Jabuzoff. Statistician Marge Innovera. Chauffeur Pikov


Vindy Talk Radio hits a birthday

Opinion: It was change day Friday at Vindy Talk Radio. Out went one desk, and in went another. It was


Princess and Andy are fine

Opinion: Youngstown business and city leaders gathered Friday on Andrews Avenue to celebrate work that was 40


Mahoning River not on app map

Opinion: Long ago, the Mahoning River was written off. It was choked by years of pollution from steel mills


What happened to Wolfy?

Opinion: Smoky Hollow is a name and a place that invites legends. It was a perfect place for Wolfy to die.


A career being ‘That guy ...’

Opinion: There are certain occupations that, when they come up in conversation, have an E.F. Hutton effect —


Ginny Maikranz's lesson: You're never too old ...

Opinion: At almost 86 years old, Ginny Snyder has lived a life of one momentous event after another. Yet


As Americans, we’ll always have more to do

Opinion: With kids’ activities these days, it seems they are always being entertained. My kids are no


Frack protesters: Facts or farce?

Opinion: It’s not often that you show up to a news event and find that you’re part of the news. Don’t Frack


Paying for someone else’s Greatest feeling

Opinion: Dave Peduzzi signed up for Greatest Golfer of the Valley last year on kind of a whim. He doesn’t


An empty nest test

Opinion: Our three cats got yelled at a bit more. They also got a bit more pampered, too. And my wife


Memories built by steel

Opinion: The house that Carl Jacobson grew up in was a wooden home in Brownlee Woods. But it was built by


Tam O’Shanter represents a multitude of luck for many

Opinion: Shamrocks dot the rolling hills of Tam O’Shanter Golf Course in Hermitage. They’re even the shape


Introducing three Greatest families

Opinion: We’re halfway through our fourth summer of Greatest Golfer of the Valley presented by Farmers


A road less traveled ...

Opinion: It’s odd how we can become prisoners to our patterns. I’m a prisoner to the I-680/U.S. 224