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


Women’s History Month celebrates past and future

Editorial: At the dawn of Women’s History Month this weekend, celebrations rightly run rampant throughout the


Abuse of migrant children must not be ignored by US

Editorial: The aftershocks of the Donald J. Trump administration’s ill-conceived and inhumane family


Congress must fully fund program for 9/11 victims

Editorial: The Sept. 11, 2001, terror- ist attacks on America’s mainland claimed 2,996 lives, including those


Protect endangered insects

Editorial: Toledo Blade: In the 1998 Pixar film “A Bug’s Life,” Flik, the ant protagonist, asserts the


Ohioans go hungry amid flaws in new benefit system

Editorial: The Plain Dealer of Cleveland: Trying to automate how an Ohioan can apply for and receive human-


US-North Korea summit may be window dressing

Editorial: Love was in the air last June when President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un


Greedy benefit managers rip off taxpayers of Ohio

Editorial: Columbus Dispatch: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s plan to recover millions of taxpayer dollars


Y’town school board lacks credibility in its criticism

Editorial: To set the record straight: It wasn’t the members of the Youngstown City School District Academic


Move cautiously, responsibly on increasing Ohio gas tax

Editorial: M ost motorists who each day valiantly venture onto the crater-filled terrain of many roads in the


Fifth Ave. face-lift, other projects will energize city

Editorial: One by one, key pieces of downtown Youngstown’s strategic redevelopment puzzle are securely falling


Trump’s attack on press plays out on Capitol Hill

Editorial: Days after a supporter of President Donald J. Trump’s attacked members of the press during a rally


History would tell Trump to keep US out of Venezuela

Editorial: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Even as President Donald Trump works to extricate the U.S. military from


Trump wrong in equating border wall to 9/11 attacks

Editorial: President Donald J. Trump asked Congress for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico


How Kasich team pulled fast one on county workers

Editorial: Columbus Dispatch: In terms of legacy, most observers would have agreed that former Gov. John Kasich


Claudia Hoerig receives appropriate prison term

Editorial: “SHE IS EVIL”