Opinion and Editorial

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


Charter schools preserve a parent’s right to choose

Opinion: Charter schools preserve a parent’s right to choose EDITOR: This letter is in response to the


A true moment of silence

Opinion: A true moment of silence EDITOR: At Friday night’s Austintown Fitch football game they had a


Traficant: Master of the disguise

Opinion: The mug shots of James A. Traficant Jr. aren’t meant to highlight the fashion sense of the former


Avoid government health care

Opinion: Avoid government health care EDITOR: We don’t need a new single payer /public option health care


Searching for the center

Editorial: Searching for the center Editorial cartoonists often stretch the limits of credulity (and,


Support the president

Opinion: Support the president EDITOR: It is so disturbing to know that our Congress and a few nay-saying


Sewer project languishes

Opinion: Sewer project languishes EDITOR: In 2003, the Canfield Township trustees secured a Community


What about the steelworkers?

Opinion: What about the steelworkers? EDITOR: Having been a steelworker for 25 years, I’m finding very


Take the fight to Washington

Opinion: Take the fight to Washington EDITOR: The retirees are fighting for what they have worked for and


California’s prisons facing major crisis

Opinion: More than 36 million people live in California. The state recently averted a financial collapse by


Rogue officer in Warren gets away with wrist tap

Editorial: On 14 dates, Warren police officer Emanuel Nites either showed up late for work or left work early


Vindy, WFMJ health care event gets personal

Opinion: The current debate regarding health-care reform in the U.S. is an intense churn through public


This is the reason for our discontent

Opinion: Who wrote the following: “We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must


We need to act like the ‘United’ States

Opinion: I want my country back. The one where a message of personal responsibility and the value of a good


Owners of the Thunder have earned our thanks

Editorial: For three seasons, residents of this region were treated to great family entertainment with the