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Decent voters in Alabama should say no to indecency

Editorial: Deep in this nation’s Bible Belt, voters must decide if the Scriptural admonition about ruining the


Matt Lauer was Trump’s chump during the presidential election

Opinion: By Dick Polman Cagle Cartoons Matt Lauer will be remembered as a fallen sexual harasser, but in


Chicago bakery is toast

Opinion: By Joe Guzzardi Cagle Cartoons An Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Chicago’s


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Youngstown Foundation’s legacy of giving matures

Editorial: One hundred years ago, five industrial heavyweights – John Stambaugh, Philip Wick, Henry Butler,


When is making-cake speech protected by the constitution?

Opinion: WASHINGTON The conversation about a cake lasted less than a minute but will long reverberate in


Americans truly weren’t all that virtuous 50 years ago

Opinion: Americans truly weren’t all that virtuous 50 years ago IIn his opinion piece published in The


Youngstown beats odds in medical pot sweepstakes

Editorial: After years of being over- run by the Three Cs – Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus – in the highly


Yost: No sacred cows in probe

Opinion: It wasn’t happenstance that the first person charged in the state’s investigation of several


The parade of two mayors

Opinion: On our Vindicator Facebook page this morning, one of the top attractions from our weekend coverage


Hurray for HBCUs

Opinion: A new report shows HBCUs inject billions of dollars in economic impact into the national economy


Trump and GOP playing politics with California wildfire disaster

Opinion: By Gene Lyons Andrews McMeel Syndication Sometimes it’s hard to be cynical enough about the


Amp up cooperation, tamp down provocation on Korea

Editorial: On the heels of this week’s high-stakes intercontinental ballistic missile firing by North Korea,


Signs you may be a holiday tightwad

Opinion: By Danny Tyree Cagle Cartoons It’s beginning to look a lot like debt collectors, everywhere you


Councilman-elect Moffie roils the political waters in Poland village

Opinion: The often sleepy political goings-on in the village of Poland were awakened by Sam Moffie, who will


Virtue making a return

Opinion: Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the sex