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


Work to make dip in opiate deaths start of a long trend

Editorial: On the surface at least, preliminary numbers from Trumbull County health officials offer a glimmer


Trump must not permit elephant trophy imports

Editorial: President Donald J. Trump reportedly spends several hours a day watching television, which isn’t


Efforts to keep call-center jobs in US deserve support

Editorial: At or near the top of ANY list of underrespected and underappreciated sectors of the Mahoning


Anti-frackers in Y’town keep tilting at windmills

Editorial: A group of self-appointed guardians of Youngstown are at it again, pushing an amendment to the


Don’t become chilling stat amid revelry for St. Pat

Editorial: Regardless of their ances- try, hordes of Mahoning Valley residents today will don the green, down


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Leaders should not give up on SMAR2T investment in Youngstown and Valley

Editorial: We can easily under- stand why stakeholders in a planned $20 million urban renewal project in


Copycat threats targeting schools no joking matter

Editorial: As the nation struggles to find solutions to the growing epidemic of school shootings, an issue


Valley should rally behind TJX center for Lordstown

Editorial: With OUR unemploymenT rate hovering among the highest in Ohio and the nation and with our base of


Trump’s meeting with Kim doesn’t have clear purpose

Editorial: There’s a reason the White House is using the word “meeting” instead of “negotiations” to


Seeking open government not just a job for the press

Editorial: There are two kinds of governments: those that are driven by the people, from the bottom up, and


Detractors will not kill the ‘Youngstown Plan’

Editorial: Let us not forget why the Youngstown City School District was restructured by an act of the


Celebrate area’s Irish pride at 40th St. Patrick’s parade

Editorial: Irish roots run extremely deep throughout the Mahoning Valley. Indeed they stretch back centuries


Campbell’s successful formula to fight blight

Editorial: Much like its immediate neighbor to its west, the city of Campbell has been through the wringer


President should implement steel and aluminum tariffs

Editorial: One of the most fiery and contentious battles of the presidency of Donald J. Trump has exploded over


Sensible gun-control laws receiving serious attention

Editorial: The recent massacre of 17 students and educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in