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Opinion | Our Voice | Columns Todd Franko Bertram de Souza David Skolnick Ernie Brown | Letters


Port authority must conduct national search to fill top job

Editorial: Just because Ron Klingle, chair- man of the publicly funded Western Reserve Port Authority, has


Follow beat of Campbell cops in re-establishing foot patrols

Editorial: THERE IS NO DENYING that 21st- Century technology has revolutionized and enhanced the effectiveness


Mayor is using his authority in appointing events director

Editorial: Youngstown Mayor John A. Mc- Nally has created a five-member committee to review the 54 applications


Use report cards to bolster the Valley’s strong schools

Editorial: Who says excellent learning isn’t taking place inside today’s public schools? Certainly not those


Failing grade in report card really about at-risk students

Editorial: Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who will be visiting the Mahoning Valley today, can expect to be asked about


As Allegiant expands at YNG, keep daily service high priority

Editorial: Allegiant, as an adjective, means loyal and faithful. Allegiant, as one of the world’s fastest-


All eyes on domestic violence

Editorial: Sixteen days from now, the United States will begin a monthlong observance designed to raise


Grand opening of ‘The Racino’ puts Penn National in spotlight

Editorial: Just as General Motors CO. is a leader in the auto industry, and Vallourec is blazing a trail in the


Take action this month to fight hunger in the Mahoning Valley

Editorial: One sure-fire sign that the pace of economic recovery in the Mahoning Valley continues to crawl


Obama outlines realistic plan to take on Islamic State thugs

Editorial: The United States and its West- ern allies cannot be the face of the military campaign against


Renew this Patriot Day vow: We will never forget 9/11

Editorial: A lot has changed in our nation and world since the al-Qaida terrorist group savagely attacked the


US District Judge Economus again blasts Ohio over voting

Editorial: Ten years after the state of Ohio was nationally ridiculed for way it conducted the presidential


As downtown reinvents itself, so, too, must city’s South Side

Editorial: “The downfall of Youngstown’s South Side is one of the greatest tragedies in American urban history.


NATO tries to discourage Putin from additional expansionism

Editorial: At last week’s NATO summit in Wales, President Obama and the Western European nations drew a line


A new public school system in Youngstown is inevitable

Editorial: If the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different