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


Arizona and a nation mourn the loss of 19 firefighters

Editorial: Not since Sept. 11, 2001, have so many firefighters died in the United States on a single day. And


Wallenda’s high-wire adventure exhibits heights of human spirit

Editorial: Twenty-six million eyeballs focused squarely on Discovery Channel screens late last month as Nik


Weekend of greatness in Valley

Editorial: Excitement is mounting for The Greatest Weekend of Summer in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley


Youngstown council pretends ward redistricting is solution

Editorial: Watching Youngstown City Council members recently discuss the realignment of the seven wards brought


Will Y&S Railroad finally find good home with Aqua?

Editorial: With its sordid history, the Youngstown & Southern Railroad, the 36-mile line that runs from


There’s more investigating to do in the Sciortino arrest

Editorial: The initial investigation into the apparent OVI traffic stop of Mahoning County Auditor Michael V.


The ideals celebrated today are strengthened by reforms to our immigration laws

Editorial: How appropriate it is that on this 237th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of


Ohio’s $62 billion budget bill gets into social engineering too

Editorial: The bill that Ohio Gov. John Ka- sich signed Sunday was labeled a budget bill, but it was also a


Unfinished housing demolition merely recycles urban blight

Editorial: By most accounts, the city of Youngstown can take pride in its smashing success in clearing


School board does right thing with new contract for Hathorn

Editorial: By approving a retire/rehire plan for Youngstown schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn, the board of


Youngstown’s traffic cameras iffy; surveillance cameras not

Editorial: It took Youngstown lawmakers four years to get from talking about traffic cameras to voting to place


End of the Anderson era at YSU

Editorial: It was a different age in education when Cynthia E. Anderson entered Youngstown State University as


Gov. Kasich should strike a blow for open government

Editorial: Over the past few weeks, The Vindicator and other newspapers throughout Ohio have expressed outrage


Roberts Court just can’t get away from its activist ways

Editorial: In three landmark decisions re- leased by the Supreme Court of the United States before summer


Northside hospital expansion protects vital community asset

Editorial: Northside hospital expansion protects vital community asset Three short years ago, North- side