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


Where’s outcry over epidemic of opiate abuse in the Valley?

Editorial: Imagine a rancid crop of broccoli shipped to the Mahoning Valley resulting in hundreds of people


Loss of aircraft, jobs at 910th is a call to action by the area

Editorial: Does it make any sense for the federal government to have invested hundreds of millions of dollars


Taking first baby steps toward a responsible Iran, safer world

Editorial: Few in the halls of Congress or in the capitals of the world community herald the recently


Valley’s voice should be heard on future of higher education

Editorial: Ohio Board of Regents Chancel- lor John Carey and the governor’s point man on higher education, Dr.


Thanksgivukkah serves up once-in-lifetime opportunities

Editorial: In a rare and incredible align- ment of the Jewish and Gregorian calendars, the first full day of


Paramount Theatre’s travails reflect a lackadaisical attitude

Editorial: A story in the Vindicator friday obviously was the catalyst for the change in attitude. In the


Don’t loosen duty-to-retreat standards in Ohio statutes

Editorial: Like so many other hot-button issues that wind their way into the august halls of state


Senate Democrats had no choice but to exercise nuclear option

Editorial: Of all the warnings from Republicans of a national political crisis as a result of the Democratic-


Nov, 24, 1963 editorial | Government lives on

Editorial: Editor’s Note: The following editorial was published in The Youngstown Vindicator on Nov, 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


Youngstown school system still plagued by suspensions

Editorial: A year ago, we made the following observation about the shockingly large number of suspensions in


US, allies should hunt down new Pakistan Taliban leader

Editorial: It is now clear that the religious extremists in Pakistan have no intention of ending their bloody


Free Men Mourn

Editorial: The assassin’s bullets which took the life of President John F. Kennedy also gouged a gaping wound


Ohio fights human trafficking, but much more work remains

Editorial: The sentencing of a Cleveland man earlier this week on human trafficking charges sheds light on an


Hubbard horn-honking saga could finally come to an end

Editorial: For more than six years, Garrick Krlich and his wife have complained that they are the targets of a


Responsible governing gets messy but works in Warren

Editorial: Quite often in this space, The Vindicator finds it necessary to take to task government leaders for