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


Let new Trumbull drug court restore order to juveniles’ lives

Editorial: As with adults, crime and drug abuse among juveniles remain inextricably linked. Four of every five


Door is now open to broaden crackdown on steel dumping

Editorial: The U.S. Department of Commerce ruling that anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese


Find more work slots or restore food stamps to needy Ohioans

Editorial: By all accounts, Ohio in general and the Mahoning Valley in particular have a long road to hoe


Nonpayment of taxes is a disqualifier for public office

Editorial: No, you aren’t imagining things. The headline above has appeared in this space in the recent past.


Youngstown’s future is in the hands of its residents

Editorial: A 287-page report relaTING TO the condition of Youngstown’s neighborhoods provides some facts about


Stop playing cruel word games with senior citizens’ Medicare

Editorial: Consider the plight of 87-year- old Julia Matthews of Toledo, who got zapped with a $61,000 bill


Despite losses in core values, Olympics can still be a winner

Editorial: For centuries, friendship, respect and excellence have endured as the three core values of the


Mahoning Valley has an ally in the Obama administration

Editorial: If Jay Williams, deputy director of the U.S. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and former mayor


Vatican’s reaction to UN report on pedophile priests troubling

Editorial: A United Nations human-rights committee has publicly used the three words the Vatican did not want


Build momentum for restoration of integrity to county courthouse

Editorial: More than three years ago, the Mahoning County Courthouse lost its trademark Justice, Law, and


Preschool focus holds promise

Editorial: I n recent YEARS, enrollment growth has been a foreign concept for the Youngstown City Schools,


City health board’s decision on consolidation lacking foresight

Editorial: A little over a month after his tenure as mayor of Youngstown came to an end, one of Charles


Decline in spring enrollment puts pressure on YSU’s chief

Editorial: Given that Youngstown State University’s enrollment has dropped from 15,194 in the fall of 2010 to


Ethics in lobbying law fails the stink test, needs update

Editorial: Given the low esteem that most people hold toward the U.S. Congress, it’s hardly surprising that


Prosecutors raise stakes in Boston Marathon terror trial

Editorial: Seeking the death penalty against the accused Boston Marathon bomber is more than simply a legal