Letters

Party time is approaching

Opinion: Party time is approaching EDITOR: Spring is right around the corner and that could mean only one

Community college will aid Warren and the Valley

Opinion: Community college will aid Warren and the Valley EDITOR: ACTION has been a very vocal advocate

President should show equal respect for all fallen soldiers

Opinion: President should show equal respect for all fallen soldiers EDITOR: I am appalled to learn that

Don’t judge a woman who tried to help more than most

Opinion: Don’t judge a woman who tried to help more than most EDITOR: During my years as a working

Will misreads California

Opinion: Will misreads California EDITOR: In his analysis of the Republican primary field in

Court and Congress give us change we don’t need

Opinion: Court and Congress give us change we don’t need EDITOR: Every time I start to write about

Not all are welcome to tea

Opinion: Not all are welcome to tea EDITOR: I believe that it is long overdue that the Tri-County Tea

Growing up in the Mahoning Valley, living in Italy provides a perspective on health care

Opinion: EDITOR: Originally from Hubbard, I graduated from Youngstown State University and have been living

Schools deserve credit

Opinion: Schools deserve credit EDITOR: I am writing to you concerning your article last Saturday

Poland basketball program went beyond sportsmanship

Opinion: Poland basketball program went beyond sportsmanship EDITOR: On behalf of the Beaver Local Board

FAA moves on new air traffic plan without local input

Opinion: FAA moves on new air traffic plan without local input EDITOR: As someone who depends on local

Some tips for maintaining churches as safe sanctuaries

Opinion: Some tips for maintaining churches as safe sanctuaries EDITOR: The issue of church safety is

What’s the working agenda at theses tea parties?

Opinion: What’s the working agenda at theses tea parties? EDITOR: I watched a couple TV news spots the

Loss of manufacturing jobs is costing us our country

Opinion: Loss of manufacturing jobs is costing us our country EDITOR: When we were married in 1965 and

A little civility and even-handedness would help the country to start moving ahead

Opinion: EDITOR: Both the tenor and the content of the first two letters to the editor in last Sunday’s

Critics are so predictable, and hypocritical, too

Opinion: Critics are so predictable, and hypocritical, too EDITOR: There are several things in life that

The people on the bus get on and off, on and off ...

Opinion: The people on the bus get on and off, on and off ... EDITOR: I am responding to the lady who was

Recognizing a psychopath

Opinion: Recognizing a psychopath EDITOR: Special corporate interests already had American democracy on

Murder outside church sets a new standard for low

Opinion: Murder outside church sets a new standard for low EDITOR: I have lived in Youngstown for over 50

There’s a revolution afoot

Opinion: There’s a revolution afoot EDITOR: An old song’s lyrics suggest, what a difference a day makes.

Even after a senseless murder on the South Side, there is something special there

Opinion: EDITOR: I love Youngstown, not because of Mill Creek Park or Handel’s ice cream, but because of

Green has him seeing red

Opinion: Green has him seeing red EDITOR: Recently it has been reported that Congressman Ryan has

City should know clear roads are a quality of life issue

Opinion: City should know clear roads are a quality of life issue EDITOR: The recent small snow

Opinion: I hope that the recent events in the Massachusetts senate race are not lost, particularly on the constituents of the 17th congressional district. Several weeks ago The Vindicator ran an article about the upcoming election for this congressional seat. In that article Dr. William Binning of the Political Science Department at YSU said, it would take a miracle for a Republican to win this seat. Well maybe, but we should learn some important lessons from the election results in Massachusetts.

Since when is bribery OK?

Opinion: Every time I read the paper, I read ofsome so-called educated idiot that you give a large piece of print to and what they are saying just don’t make any sense whatsoever.

Let’s look at who failed

Opinion: I read, with awed disbelief, then with hilarity, “Democrats fail the Valley,” the Jan. 18 letter regarding political affiliations and their effect on the Mahoning Valley. A common sense look and reflection on the past 40 years of Republican accomplishments yields a dire need to respond.

City needs a muzzle law

Opinion: My wife and I were hiking through the trails of Mill Creek Park last week when we encountered a man walking his large rottweiler on a leash heading toward us. The man had great difficulty in trying to restrain his dog who was growling and lunging at us. The man begged for us to please move quickly through the trail.

Where is East’s personality?

Opinion: I recently went to an Ursuline-East basketball game. The metal street sign and practice field welcoming me to the new East campus in place of the old high school was a sad sight. The gymnasium is a nice canvas, but it is blank. Aside from an American flag and a clock with a cage on it, the walls are white and it looks prisonesque. Even the floor has no symbol, nothing but black and blue lines.

Workers earned pensions

Opinion: The Vindicator recently published articles questioning the sustainability of Ohio’s public pension systems and a very emotional, yet incorrect, column by Bertram de Souza.

Hypothesis: Free trade works (even if some people don’t)

Opinion: An excellent book by Tom Friedman, “The World is Flat,” reasons extremely well that free trade has no better com- petitor, even for those who may at some time lose their jobs to imports. Not only does he make arguments for (near- ly) every situation, but there is the fact that, in recent years, every U.S. presi- dent and every U.S. Nobel laureate in economics chimes in with support of free trade under any and every way you look at it (so far).

A writer’s daughter writes

Opinion: For almost two decades, my father,Tom Maskell, wrote letters to The Vindicator. I truly appreciate how many of them were published in these pages. Over the years, he would write a letter and, upon seeing it published, would compare the final version to his original to learn from the changes. My father was an engineer and never formally trained as a writer, yet he was always writing and working toward being a better writer. Even before publishing his book, he saw himself as a writer, and he was proud of each letter printed in your paper.