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Mahoning County adopts status quo spending plan

Editorial: During the campaign in the fall of 2014 for the renewal of a half-percent sales tax and the addition


Hunger in Valley takes no holiday; commit to help

Editorial: Once again this year, Mahoning Valley residents proved their mettle by reaping success in one of


GOP isn’t impressed with climate-change agreement

Editorial: It was a strategy born of Republican intransigence, but it may well be the final nail in the


Vienna spill exposes gap in Ohio’s drilling rules

Editorial: Nine months ago, about 10,000 gallons of a petroleum derivative spilled from injection-well holding


Is a sales-tax increase in the offing in Trumbull?

Editorial: Eight months after Trumbull County commissioners received high praise from residents and this space


State checkbook is a key to government openness

Editorial: It’s a mantra Ohioans have heard many times, but from our vantage point it never gets old: “I


Fiscal woes in Liberty now demand tough love from township trustees

Editorial: During this season of shar- ing, elected officials may be inclined toward generosity, but in


Sharp spike in homicides in Youngstown demands communitywide response

Editorial: The notoriously mean streets of Youngstown have grown alarmingly meaner over the short span of


President, GOP leaders must end ISIS bickering

Editorial: Islamic extremists operating under the aegis of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as


Mo. professor’s assault on free speech goes unpunished

Editorial: What a troubling, tumultuous and chilling month of conflict, carnage and terror the past 30 days


What a troubling, tumultuous and chilling month of conflict, carnage and terror the past 30 days

Editorial: What a troubling, tumultuous and chilling month of conflict, carnage and terror the past 30 days


Join campaign to award Booker presidential medal

Editorial: Youngstown son and prom- inent national journalist Simeon Booker has never been big on self-glory.


Legislators avoid jeopardy by snubbing Chamber plan

Editorial: By any measure, compeTITION for state dollars for local capital projects is intense and, yes,


Join campaign to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Simeon Booker

Editorial: The former Youngstown resident served as a lightning rod for the modern civil-rights movement


Return of daily air service to Valley now on the radar

Editorial: There’s a glimmer of hope today that the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport will have daily