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


Amid struggles, workers in US, Valley have much to celebrate

Editorial: To be sure, a multitude of challenges confronts labor in the United States on today’s holiday


Don’t panic over ACT results

Editorial: R ecently released college-readi- ness results for this year’s crop of high school graduates do


Cities need boost in funding to make a dent in demolition

Editorial: There are nearly 6,000 vacant homes in Youngstown and Warren that must be demolished, but like most


Ohio should deny parole for Trumbull ‘sociopath’ killer

Editorial: Twenty-one years ago, 16-year- old Christopher Ferrell, along with a group of other juvenile


Obama must make sure Syrian strike is surgical

Editorial: The White House’s insistence that regime change is not among the options being considered as a


Delphi retirees get good news in the bid for pension fairness

Editorial: After years of frustration and even despair, the 22,000 salaried retirees of Delphi Corp., including


50 years after historic ‘Dream’ MLK’s vision almost a reality

Editorial: “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for


Ohio stepping up the fight against human trafficking

Editorial: Although some 1,000 American- born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year, and


Use new report-card results to improve schools in Valley

Editorial: If, as many argue, the devil is in the details, then the revised and expanded 2012-13 state report


Superintendent, state panel own city’s latest report card

Editorial: What do you call five F’s, two D’s and two C’s on a report card? If shameful is too harsh a word,


Canfield Fair’s rich rural roots

Editorial: Hearty bites of deep-fried Twinkies and topsy turvy twists aboard the Zipper ride rank among


Amid the frenzy, high school football season sports value

Editorial: Tradition and excitement run deep in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys each year as August winds its


YSU begins a new school year with hope tempered by reality

Editorial: When Randy Dunn was picked earlier this year to serve as the eighth president of Youngstown State


War on crime will now need new weapons and initiatives

Editorial: For blacks and Hispanics, they are the weapons of mass destruction because of the damage they’ve


Magic and mystery await Valley schools in 2013-14

Editorial: As thousands of youngsters in the Mahoning Valley plunge head-first into the start of the 2013-14