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


Work to ensure cooling trend in city’s homicide rate endures

Editorial: After enduring a sweltering heat wave last week and with the hot dog days of August on the horizon,


Penn National can be mediator in Y’town-A’town JEDD battle

Editorial: Left to their own devices, Youngstown and Austintown government officials will not find common


Recipe for solving cold cases

Editorial: The recent indictment of 64-year- old James Ferrara for a triple homicide in 1974 in Canfield


Ohio’s new schools look great but do little to solve inequities

Editorial: Few would dispute the progress made in Ohio over the past 15 years in building or renovating about


A temporary respite from the anti-democratic filibuster

Editorial: We’re happy to see an agreement reached in the U.S. Senate that allowed the long-overdue


Ohio’s record rainy-day fund spotlights spending priorities

Editorial: A record $1.48 billion now sits in Ohio’s rainy-day fund, but lest anyone think the surplus is only


Scales of justice are designed to tilt in the defendant’s favor

Editorial: It is not by accident that it is diffi- cult to convict someone in a criminal court in the United


Pakistan should be grateful to US for death of bin Laden

Editorial: An official report on the killing of the world’s leading terrorist, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan by


Merging school administrations makes sense on many fronts

Editorial: The announcement earlier this month that the Mahoning County Educational Service Center and the


A disappearing act downtown

Editorial: We’re sure that lots of people are taking pictures this weekend at the Summer Festival of the Arts


Gambling proceeds to schools add up to mere chump change

Editorial: Earlier this month, the Ohio Lottery Commission trumpeted its record $2.8 billion in lottery sales


Beware of scum of scammers who prey on our patriotism

Editorial: Scam artists of ANY ILK AREN’T destined to win any citizen of the year awards. Bilking unwitting


Federal regulators aim to hold biggest banks to account

Editorial: While action last week by three federal agencies requiring “too big to fail” banks to bulk up their


Future of Egypt is uncertain in the wake of military coup

Editorial: In a democracy, governments are replaced at the ballot box, not at the point of a gun. The July 3


Vote early and often to make Mill Creek No. 1 park in US

Editorial: The world’s largest soft-drink manufacturer has thrown down the gauntlet in a national online