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


Ex-Judge Belinky’s guilty plea should set the stage for others

Editorial: Mark Belinky did not resign from the all-important position of Mahoning County Probate judge just


Trumbull Democrats embrace the familiar in primary races

Editorial: Each of the winners of local races in the Democratic primary Tuesday in Trumbull County based his


Benghazi still haunts Dems

Editorial: Dallas Morning News: Twenty months ago, in the heat of a presidential campaign, a U.S. ambassador


Valley’s Congress candidates should pay heed to US attitudes

Editorial: In shaping their general-election campaigns, winners of Tuesday’s primary elections for the U.S.


Youngstown voters again kill anti-fracking charter change

Editorial: Proponents of the charter amendment to ban fracking and other related gas and oil exploration


Pull out the welcome mat for Boardman landlord registry

Editorial: All American citizens should be entitled to decent, safe and sanitary housing. Most all Boardman


GM’s latest investment a boost for Lordstown assembly plant

Editorial: Let the good times roll and roll and roll at General Motors’ Lordstown assembly complex that’s


Too much is at stake to sit out primary election on Tuesday

Editorial: Sad to say, Tuesday promises to be yet another sleepy election day throughout the Mahoning Valley.


YSU’s next president should be willing to stay for a while

Editorial: What’s the most obvious ques- tion each of the three finalists for the presidency of Youngstown


City reignites a VIP program

Editorial: Don’t mess with success. That winning philosophy has been embraced by the Youngstown Police


No endorsement in the race for Mahoning probate judge

Editorial: Off-the-record conversations with reliable sources are the stock-in-trade of the newspaper


YSU tennis team basks in glory; track stars stay in hot pursuit

Editorial: Don’t look now, but champion ship fever has infected the campus of Youngstown State University this


Port authority should learn from ethics panel’s findings

Editorial: Public reprimand of Scott Lewis, a member of the Western Reserve Port Authority, for violating


30 years after devastating fire Idora still holds grip on Valley

Editorial: Thirty years ago, a devastating fire sucked the life out of Idora Park. Thirty years later, memories


New sanctions against Russia will hurt Vladimir Putin’s pals

Editorial: Just as the murderous LEADER OF Syria, Bashar al-Assad, continues his bloody rule because he knows