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Be responsible to ward off warm-weather pet perils

Editorial: As temperatures zoom up, schools shut down and days grow longer, the fun and freedom of summer loom


Niles council must reject mayor’s fiscal ‘shell game’

Editorial: The quotation marks around the words shell game in the headline are designed to do two things: 1.


Supreme Court struggling to define public corruption

Editorial: Fifty-two years ago, Associ- ate Justice Potter Stewart gave the Supreme Court of the United States


Trump’s presidential bid built on political slogans

Editorial: There is a number that must be sending shock waves through the nation’s political establishment: 10


Valley stands out as hub of promising scholarship

Editorial: Should you happen to stumble upon an unusually large number of students, teachers and staff smiling


Plans to better link city’s major assets merit assent

Editorial: When one considers the most-valuable assets in and around downtown Youngstown, four quickly come to


Osama bin Laden’s killing key part of Obama’s legacy

Editorial: With the emergence of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the bloody campaign to create


Full justice eludes Hastert, victims of sexual abuse

Editorial: On its surface, the sentenc- ing last week of Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the U.S. House of


Zika virus is becoming a public-health crisis in US

Editorial: Only in government would decision-makers have the temerity to take a week off while important


Hilcorp Energy responds responsibly to 5 quakes

Editorial: The Greater Youngstown area certainly is no stranger to adversity tied to hydraulic fracturing for


Mill Creek Park is test for probate Judge Rusu

Editorial: After a year and nine months on the bench, Mahoning County Probate Judge Robert N. Rusu is making


GM Lordstown has much to celebrate in its 50 years

Editorial: A small item this week in Years Ago, The Vindicator’s daily history column, stood out among others


Respect for dead demands rehabilitation of cemetery

Editorial: All cemeteries, burial sites and repositories of human remains, regardless of historic period or


Tressel lays out a vision for YSU that tackles challenges

Editorial: Higher education in Ohio is in the midst of a major transformation, requiring four-year and two-


Many mysteries of Piketon massacre must be solved

Editorial: The killing of eight family members in Pike County in southern Ohio last Friday stand out as one of