Todd Franko

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Touring through great civic conversations

Opinion: Elton John’s concert at the Covelli Centre sold out in 30 seconds, or something obscene like that.


These guys like to eat and tell

Opinion: Men aspire to do great things: to be president, to cure cancer, to redevelop downtowns. Five


New press has many of us feeling good

Opinion: What do you have against Duluth? Why are the Sudoku answers printed the same day? Will


Today is a goodbye to one friend and a hello to another

Opinion: Goodbye and hello. Today marks a big day for us at The Vindicator and a big day, we expect, for

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YSU students are hands-on in journalism project

Opinion: Night, Camera and Action We rolled into downtown Youngstown on Friday night like a television


Fat, dumb and happy has burned us before; resist it now

Opinion: Good headlines in The Vindicator are as plentiful as the snow these days. GM will have a


Bad could become good for Lemon Grove incident

Opinion: I have not been in a bar fight in my life. I did come close to one — at least from my perspective.


Snowstorms — they bring out best and worst in men

Opinion: Today’s verbiage was supposed to be about my new mentorship life with Kristyn Wolf, an eighth-grader


If you freeze it, they will come

Opinion: The stinging cold pulls at your nostrils the second you inhale. Each day’s high temperatures are


For the love of Luke, baseball needs to wake up

Opinion: Like many couples, Chad and Nicole Holko had to wait a little longer to finally have their first

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What if 61 percent of your news stopped?

Opinion: Did you “hear the news” about the county sales-tax plans? Did you “see the news report” about the


Column — a year’s worth of building bridges (mostly)

Opinion: Hi, I’m Todd. It’s been a year already. In the mass of our year-end looking back and looking


Top-viewed vindy.com stories offer distinction

Opinion: So what news most impacted you in 2009? Who was the biggest newsmaker for the year? Forget 2009;


Breast cancer and a coach’s care help make Christmas

Opinion: Elliott Giles has seen a lot of great football plays on the field for Youngstown State University


Pavlik’s handlers took Ghost Nation to be dumb

Opinion: The irony is startling. This is my next-to-last column for 2009. While I’m finishing my third year