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


Congress has a job to do. It should be that simple.

Editorial: Congressmen return this week from a four-week hiatus during which they got to rub elbows with their


Despite challenges, labor has much to celebrate today

Editorial: Without a doubt, a multitude of challenges confronts labor in the United States on today’s holiday


Making marijuana legal would create a monopoly of large-scale producers

Editorial: The organization leading the campaign for the legalization of marijuana in Ohio has filed a lawsuit


Niles dodges fiscal bullet with opinion from state

Editorial: For about a week in August, it appeared that the effort by the city of Niles to get out of state-


Denali rises as fitting, fair name for our highest peak

Editorial: Though we greatly respect and admire the legacy of Niles-born and Poland-raised President William


Egypt’s leader must free journalists sent to prison

Editorial: Just a year or so into his presidency, Fattah el-Sissi is proving his detractors right. El-Sissi’s


Top Ohio court must guide charter cities on fracking

Editorial: It’s no secret that we view the proponents of the ban on fracking in the city of Youngstown as self-


Even though the singularly aviary sounds of pecking, clucking, cackling and quacking have been

Editorial: Even though the singularly aviary sounds of pecking, clucking, cackling and quacking have been


Devastation of Katrina in ’05 still unimaginable

Editorial: The worst natural disaster to hit the Mahoning and Shenango valleys lasted less than an hour and


Make the worst students in Youngstown a priority

Editorial: First a question for the critics of the Youngstown Plan, designed by the state to prevent the


O’Connor responds to us

Editorial: Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor has vehemently rejected our call for a special


US civil-rights leader Bond towers as study in contrasts

Editorial: For those on the front lines of the struggles for civil rights, human rights and economic justice


Facing ‘evil of terrorism’ one extremist at a time

Editorial: In awarding the Legion of Honor to three Americans and a Briton for stopping a terrorist attack by


Continue enforcing law regulating wild animals

Editorial: It took a long time for the state of Ohio to establish sensible regulations for private citizens


Sobering realities justify end-of-summer OVI blitz

Editorial: For those who think that aggressive anti-drunken driving campaigns such as Mahoning County’s current