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Rx to better help children harmed by opioid scourge

Editorial: Good news and bad news flowed directly out of Columbus this week about the war on opiate abuse and


President should man up and apologize to Obama

Editorial: We aren’t na Øve enough to believe that President Donald J. Trump will admit that he was wrong when


Ohio’s Baby Box program can lessen infant mortality

Editorial: Unacceptably high infant mortality rates in the Mahoning Valley and throughout Ohio continue to


Rebuilding Meridian Road will ease motorists’ tensions

Editorial: To all you frazzled motorists who wonder how your cars will fare in the obstacle course that is


Valley basketball squads score excitement and pride

Editorial: While many roundball enthusiasts are looking forward with excitement to the final rounds of the


Measure to protect Ohioans from payday loans timely

Editorial: It has been said many times before in this space, but it’s worth repeating: Ohio has the highest


Bring campaign finance reporting into 21st century

Editorial: In the name of transparency, accountability and convenience in local elections, it’s past time for


Trump’s proposed budget has good, bad for the area

Editorial: There’s one thing we know for sure about President Donald Trump’s first budget being unveiled


Let more sun shine on all levels of government

Editorial: Despite the cold and snowy conditions outside today, Ohio and the entire U.S. are basking under


Republicans can’t ignore infrastructure challenges

Editorial: The latest quadrennial report on the state of the nation’s roads, bridges, water systems and energy


Pitch in to support strong future for Canfield Fair

Editorial: A $4.5 million improvement and expansion project for the fairgrounds makes eminently good sense.


Children in harm’s way with the scourge of drugs

Editorial: With all the extensive press coverage of the opioid epidemic on the local, state and national


Trump’s plan to finance private schools foolhardy

Editorial: Remember the good old days, when conservative politicians used to campaign to eliminate the U.S.


Trump can help prevent MYCAP agency’s demise

Editorial: In January, after Youngstown native Omarosa Manigault was tapped to serve in President Donald J.


Republicans make it easier for mentally ill to get guns

Editorial: Back in 2012 when a mental- ly unstable man killed his mother and then 20 children and six faculty