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


Class of 2019 deserves help in preventing mass failures

Editorial: As the 2018-19 academic year approaches its half-way mark, many high school seniors in Ohio find


NAFTA 2.0 signed, but not sealed and delivered

Editorial: In October, while comment- ing on the new trade agreement reached by the United States, Mexico and


An acceptable voter purge from Ohio’s election chief

Editorial: Columbus Dispatch: That’s not a Christmas card tens of thousands of lax voters are about to receive


Trump’s ‘America First’ posture evident at G-20

Editorial: President Donald J. Trump has made no secret of his disdain for a world order that has the United


George H.W. Bush stood in stark contrast to Trump

Editorial: New York Times: Historians will measure the presidency of George H.W. Bush in familiar ways – by


A lesson from Lordstown

Editorial: Columbus Dispatch: Whatever happened to the solid nugget of common sense: “Actions speak louder than


GM’s decision to mothball Lordstown plant foreseen

Editorial: No one in the Mahoning Valley should have been surprised by General Motors’ announcement Monday


Milestones reached in US, Valley fight against AIDS

Editorial: A mixture of good news and bad news greets today’s milestone 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day.


Community should rally around Girard Indians for state championship

Editorial: If you happen to pass through the city of Girard this week, don’t be surprised by the spirited


Charter schools in Ohio are still getting free ride

Editorial: If any other industry slop- ping at the public trough had as many complaints against it as the


Don’t look for any fairness from GM toward workers

Editorial: Hamilton [Ontario, Canada] Spectator: Where is the fairness? By its own measuring standards, General


GM hasn’t slammed door on its Valley plant’s future

Editorial: If there’s even a sliver of a chance of General Motors assigning a new product to its Lordstown


Ohio leaders must focus on productive gun bills

Editorial: Toledo Blade: The Ohio Republican majority in the statehouse returned from the election recess


Valley going all out to keep GM’s complex from closing

Editorial: Despite the dark cloud over General Motors’ assembly complex in Lordstown, the Mahoning Valley is


Residents must commit to cut city’s high homicide rate

Editorial: The wide swath of nine homicides in the narrow span of six weeks in Youngstown painfully reinforces