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


Lessons come to light as GE ends operations in the Valley

Editorial: The last vestige of General Elec- tric’s once strong and shining imprint on the Mahoning Valley


Youngstown’s financial woes worse than first made public

Editorial: Talk about political baptism by fire. Youngstown Mayor John A. Mc- Nally has been in office for just


Clarification

Editorial: VAM USA is not a subsidiary of Vallourec Star of Youngstown, as stated in an editorial Sunday. The


It’s time to criminalize cold, heartless treatment of animals

Editorial: A photograph of two beagles left outside in raised doghouses amid subzero temperatures in


Extend mortgage-debt relief

Editorial: The snail’s pace at which economic recovery is moving in Ohio and through much of the nation also


Vallourec gets vote of confidence as workers reject push for union

Editorial: It is telling that Vallourec Star, one of the leading manufacturers in the Mahoning Valley, did not


Egypt moving further away from the goals of revolution

Editorial: Egypt moving further away from the goals of revolution Egypt is rocking and rolling on the third


Take a look on bright side of this month’s arctic blast

Editorial: For millions of Ohioans in the Northeast and Pennsylvanians in the west fed up with January’s


Obama notes Youngstown hub again in State of Union speech

Editorial: To hear President Barack Obama tell it — as he did Tuesday night in his nationally televised State


Mahoning County fits the bill as Hardest Hit, merits funding

Editorial: The gargantuan task of ridding Youngstown and other areas of Mahoning County from the blight of


Youngstown State buoyed by two key developments

Editorial: As Ohio’s public universities and colleges brace for the report on higher education to be released


Botched execution fails to justify abolition of capital punishment

Editorial: The prolonged execution this month of a man who raped, sodomized and murdered a 22-year-old pregnant


Enough bite in puppy-mill law?

Editorial: Ohio took a giant leap toward ensuring more humane treatment of animals this month when new and


Mahoning Co. commissioners must contain sales-tax damage

Editorial: With friends like the employ- ees of the Mahoning County Board of Elections, commissioners Anthony


Ohio legislators should pause before boosting beer’s potency

Editorial: Increasing the maximum percent- age of alcohol allowed in beer sold or produced in Ohio from 12 to