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Economic realities hit home for sheriff’s employees, CSB

Editorial: With layoffs looming in the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, and with the county commissioners


Redefining a calamity

Editorial: Redefining a calamity Getting four to six inches of snow in Ohio during the winter isn’t


Valley should stand up in support of Rep. Ryan

Editorial: Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan, whose four-year membership on the powerful House Appropriations


There’s been ample time to deliberate new START treaty

Editorial: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pushing the Senate to move forward on several major


Pakistan’s leader must ensure safety of government watchdog

Editorial: So long as Pakistan depends on foreign aid for its economic survival, the country’s leaders must


Failure isn’t an option in getting tax bill through House

Editorial: The U.S. Senate saw the closest thing to a filibuster that it’s seen in years when Sen. Bernie


Ohio joins a majority of states in pursuing human traffickers

Editorial: Ohio doesn’t immediately come to mind when the issue of modern-day slavery is raised, but as other


China cares what the world thinks, but only to a point

Editorial: While the United States suf- fers with a diplomatic black eye inflicted by Wikileaks’ release of


Hands off the Ohio Turnpike

Editorial: Hands off the Ohio Turnpike The question of privatizing the Ohio Turnpike wasn’t even an issue in


Search for new police chief in Y’town should begin now

Editorial: Youngstown’s top law enforce- ment officer, Jimmy Hughes, stands to pocket a half-million dollars


Britain’s hands are not clean in release of Libyan murderer

Editorial: Now we know why British Prime Minister David Cameron refused to order a new investigation into the


Unhappy Dems must see tax deal as a do-or-die proposition

Editorial: House Democrats threw some- thing of a tantrum Thursday morning, voicing their disapproval of a


Remove element of surprise from Oakhill trial proceedings

Editorial: The lawyers in the Oakhill Renais- sance Place trial are shocked, shocked to find that a newspaper


Trumbull engineer’s whim winds up costing taxpayers

Editorial: There’s a lesson government officeholders should learn from Trumbull County Engineer David


Ursuline’s recipe for success brings honor to Valley again

Editorial: TThe Ursuline High School football team carried out familiar strategies from its playbook for