Our Voice

Please note, our last day of publication was Saturday, August 31, 2019.

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


Having courts under one roof is not consolidation

Editorial: Mahoning County Commissioner Anthony Traficanti is right in suggesting that the county court system


Lordstown is rushing toward a doubling of its income tax

Editorial: Facing a 25 percent decrease in revenue, the village of Lordstown is reacting by doubling its income


Killings of 16-year-olds show need for proactive programs

Editorial: The murder last month of two 16-year-olds on Youngstown's East Side, Troy Barlow and Jaimie Helms


Little cause for celebration on silver anniversary of AIDS

Editorial: Only 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, and an estimated 25 million people have died. On the 50th


Bad timing, bad amendment

Editorial: Society's attitudes toward homosexual behavior are changing, which is exactly why this is the wrong


YSU prof's initiative to secure R & amp;D grants is crucial, timely

Editorial: We aren't sure about the $333 million figure that Dr. Allen D. Hunter, a Youngstown State University


Helicopter crash raises public safety concerns

Editorial: Mere seconds and a few feet prevented a tragedy from becoming a disaster Sunday when a helicopter


The president's latest pick

Editorial: It is just short of amazing that a man of Henry Paulson's stature would sign on as Treasury


Have-nots in Indonesia are left with less today

Editorial: Two years ago, 131,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province were killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami,


Remembering Decoration Day

Editorial: The term Decoration Day has been dropped from the popular lexicon; today is Memorial Day. But the


Trumbull corruption probe gives no sense of satisfaction

Editorial: It is becoming more and more difficult to feel any sense of satisfaction from the investigation that


Secretary of state should investigate elections flap

Editorial: To hear officials of the Mahoning County Board of Elections tell it, the problems experienced during


Whose fault is dysfunction of criminal justice system?

Editorial: As U.S. District Court Judge David D. Dowd Jr. studies the report of the Mahoning County Criminal


Texas jury sees through Enron's house of cards

Editorial: In a testy exchange with a prosecutor during his trial, former Enron Chairman Ken Lay defended his


The president seems to have gotten attention of Congress

Editorial: We have never been reticent about throwing crooked congressmen in jail, whether it be the Mahoning