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


ITT victims deserve help; public is seeking answers

Editorial: Some 40,000 students attend- ing ITT Technical Institute across the country no doubt entered the


CEO Mohip has blueprint for saving Y’town schools

Editorial: The long-awaited recovery plan for the academically troubled Youngstown school system made public


Bare plates speak volumes for Hunger Action Month

Editorial: One sure-fire sign that the pace of economic recovery in the Mahoning Valley continues to crawl


US Supreme Court should take up ‘Golden Week’

Editorial: There’s an overarching question that encompasses the elimination of the early-voting period in Ohio


American labor’s vital signs still strong despite challenges

Editorial: On this national holiday dedicated to the American worker, let’s take the pulse of our 160-million-


Fiscal storm clouds over state, local governments

Editorial: With Ohio bracing for a major fiscal crisis in 2017 as a result of a federal ban on sales-tax


As Congress returns, Zika aid must be priority No. 1

Editorial: First-century folklore has it that as the grand city of Rome burned in the great fire of A.D. 64,


Next best moves in Ohio’s raging war on opiate abuse

Editorial: A new report from the ohio Department of Health updates the widening scope of the state’s opiate-


Obscene increase in cost of EpiPen justifies probe

Editorial: Once again, Big Pharma’s greed and venality are on full display, and once again, the debate over


Grant adds wrinkle to tax campaign in Warren

Editorial: Three weeks ago in this space, we strongly advised Warren city leaders to work aggressively to make


Brazil could soon find out what it’s like to be snubbed

Editorial: First, let us be clear about one thing: There is no moral equivalency between cold-blooded murder


Correction

Editorial: Correction An editorial published Friday titled “Niles must move quickly, responsibly to fix City


Build new, lasting memories at the 170th Canfield Fair

Editorial: Who could ever forget back in 1996 the sight of 70,000 frenzied folks flapping their wings, shaking


End of daily air service warrants federal probe

Editorial: It took just a month for the first daily commercial air service out of Youngstown in 14 years to go


Let the fever, fervor of high school football begin

Editorial: And they’re off and run- ning. High school football teams across the Mahoning and Shenango valleys