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


State legislators should ignore Youngstown lawmakers’ vote

Editorial: A 4-3 vote by Youngstown City Council in support of the archaic, financially unsustainable municipal


Sherrod Brown: the clear choice in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race

Editorial: Some candidates run as “outsid- ers” because they are just that — or even a little bit of that. And

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Cashing in on Ohio’s turnpike

Editorial: Cashing in on Ohio’s turnpike It should come as a surprise to no one that Gov. John Kasich appears


City schools deserve a chance to prove the detractors wrong

Editorial: When Superintendent Connie Hathorn talks about “right-sizing” the Youngstown City School District,


Low OVI conviction rate not an encouraging sign

Editorial: The horrific traffic accident that claimed the lives of a Newton Falls couple, Jamie and Emily


Chaney STEM gets statewide attention for accomplishments

Editorial: While the Youngstown City School District still has a way to go before it earns an excellent rating


Policing Internet gambling falls to local office holders

Editorial: Legislators in Columbus looked the other way while across the state hundreds of Internet cafes


Steep price has been paid to guarantee right to vote

Editorial: Last week’s visit to the Mahon- ing Valley by one of the champions of the civil rights movement was


Youngstown’s future linked to the future of latest technology

Editorial: Fifty years ago or so, it was not uncommon for international visitors to come to the Mahoning


Obama’s Great Lakes revelation

Editorial: Obama’s Great Lakes revelation We have criticized President Barack Obama in the past for what we


Y’town park and rec system needs a top-to-bottom review

Editorial: The recently publicized evalu- ation of Youngstown government by The PFM Group should serve as a


Iran’s chief unable to get away from old thinking in U.N. talk

Editorial: Although iran’s president Mah- moud Ahmadinejad’s address to the U.N. General Assembly was less


State report cards provide school districts with targets

Editorial: Report card day has tradition- ally been a happy day for some kids and a day of trepidation for


State should reconsider punishment of SCOPE

Editorial: There’s no denying that Ohio’s laws and rules were broken by SCOPE Inc. of Trumbull County, but the


Safe Surrender days were a success in Mahoning County

Editorial: More than 200 people got a fresh start here last week. All they had to do was walk into First