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


Niles must move quickly, carefully to fix City Hall

Editorial: In many respects, the danger- ous structural deficiencies now plaguing Niles City Hall stand out as


Y’town schools CEO sets a high bar for attendance

Editorial: A 98 percent attendance rate for Youngstown City School District students may seem overly


Youngstown Fire Dept. ranks with best in nation

Editorial: Tens of thousands of people who live or work in the city of Youngstown can breathe a little easier


Brazil proves the skeptics wrong as host of Olympics

Editorial: For 16 days, we watched with bated breath as some 1,400 athletes from around the world participated


Congress must no longer derail train-safety angst

Editorial: A troubling report from the federal government released last week reveals a dangerously poor track


Transparency will restore public trust in Mill Creek

Editorial: A couple of months have passed since Mahoning County Probate Judge Robert N. Rusu Jr. made a


Judge stops Ohio’s attack on Planned Parenthood

Editorial: The Ohio legislature and Gov. John Kasich jumped on the anti-Planned Parenthood bandwagon after a


Ohio Legislature has duty to monitor virtual schools

Editorial: For two decades the state of Ohio shifted billions of dollars from traditional public schools to


Trump needs to flesh out national security strategy

Editorial: As the hard-hitting Repub- lican primary election clearly showed, immigration ranks as one of the


Great expectations should be set, met for school year

Editorial: Optimism abounds as about 85,000 students head back to more than 200 schools in the Mahoning Valley


Strickland lowers himself with remark about Scalia

Editorial: Other than his immediate apology, Ted Strickland showed himself to be no better than Donald Trump


Restore jobs program for low-income Ohio youths

Editorial: Fresh from the “if-it-ain’t- broke, don’t-fit-it” realm of state government comes unsettling news


Trump crossed the line with incendiary remark

Editorial: Donald J. Trump was well aware of what he was saying when he spewed venom about Hillary Clinton –


Short-term pain paves way to long-term gains for city

Editorial: We can already hear the assorted moans, groans, gripes and snipes among irritable motorists


Kasich remains true to self by refusing to back Trump

Editorial: When Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich steered clear of last month’s Republican National Convention because