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


Strife, resignations jeopardize the future of the port authority

Editorial: The word “dysfunctionality” used by Mahoning County Commissioner David Ditzler to describe the


Supreme Court’s ruling chisels away at the wall between church and state

Editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court missed an opportunity to declare that this is a nation in which local


India’s next prime minister confronts a listless economy

Editorial: Prior to the global recession that began in the latter part of 2008, India had one of the fastest


Thunder Over the Valley had thousands cheering, buzzing

Editorial: There was a little bit of thunder over the Valley and a whole lot of rain on Saturday, which


Census: No easy task ahead

Editorial: Minot (N.D.) Daily News: U.S. Census Bureau director John Thompson was decidedly understated as he


Monitor Reading Guarantee for cost, fairness and results impact

Editorial: Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee is evolving into one of this state’s most


Avoid witch hunt on Benghazi

Editorial: Question: What do the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya,


Tressel shows understanding of challenges confronting YSU

Editorial: Many years have passed since Jim Tressel worked at Youngstown State University, but you wouldn’t


What will it take for the Valley to secure daily airline service?

Editorial: There was an entry in the May 7 “Years Ago” column in The Vindicator that serves as a backdrop to


Feds fall short in responsible oversight of drilling industry

Editorial: Findings from two reports released this month uncover eye-opening and troubling details about the


McNally, Sciortino must quit for good of the city and county

Editorial: We’re well aware, based on past experience, that Youngstown mayor John A. McNally and Mahoning


Colleges should embrace plan to battle campus sex assaults

Editorial: Many high school graduates in the nation and the Mahoning Valley will proudly walk across stages


Defeat of sales tax renewal in Mahoning County is revealing

Editorial: One down, two to go. THAT’S the number of chances Mahoning County commissioners have left for


Valley voters send loud message to state: Reform school funding

Editorial: In the aftermath of last week’s primary elections, the Ohio School Boards Association can celebrate


Justice for Ohio’s golden agers

Editorial: About 60,000 Ohioans over AGE 60 suffer routine physical abuse, often at the hands of family and