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Valley has 87,350 reasons for stable aid to food banks

Editorial: For state senators looking for a rationale to undo the harm the state House seeks to inflict on


Port authority should ask feds to join in ADI lawsuit

Editorial: Nine months after we urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate the demise of daily


It’s time to shift focus of mental illness toward intervention, treatment

Editorial: Mention mental illness, and far too often, the focus quickly turns to its tragic outcomes that play


Teachers union president adding to strife in Y’town

Editorial: The inexplicable decision by Larry Ellis, president of the Youngstown Education Association, to turn


Valley’s ATHENA Awards mark 25 distinctive years

Editorial: In ancient Greek religion and culture, Athena, daughter of Zeus, reigns as the patron goddess of


Special counsel takes over probe of Russian activities

Editorial: For a brief time it seemed that President Donald J. Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James


North Korea’s Kim rejects olive branch from Trump

Editorial: “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would be honored to do it. If it’s under the,


Beware the dangers of road work ahead in Valley

Editorial: With another school year ending and the Memorial Day holiday weekend beckoning, many of us are more


Mahoning County is in bind without full-time pathologist

Editorial: When Mahoning County Coroner Dr. David Kennedy used the words “pie in the sky” to refer to building


Senate puts public health above party brand in vote to keep methane-gas rule

Editorial: Obscured amid the dizzying dust-up of last week’s firing of FBI Director James Comey came one of


Let’s hear it for Valley’s heroes for health care

Editorial: Hospitals across the coun- try face daunting challenges in their mission to provide professional,


Summer jobs for youth no longer Ohio priority

Editorial: Sometimes all a kid needs is a summer job. It provides a reason to get up in the morning. And a


Comey’s firing intensifies need for special prosecutor

Editorial: Two months ago in this space when news surfaced of secret meetings last fall between Attorney


New president of France faces an uncertain future

Editorial: Although political new- comer Emmanuel Macron won the hotly contested race for president of France


Senate, House Republicans clash over health-care bill

Editorial: Despite the chest-pound- ing by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in the House over the