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Help Rescue Mission better help those in need in Valley

Editorial: For more than a century, The Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley has been saving the lives and


Americans must speak out against bigotry, prejudice

Opinion: As a Catholic and a social justice advocate for many years who promoted equal rights for both minorities and women, I am horrified by this election as many of you are.


Did academia bolster Trump?

Opinion: WASHINGTON Many undergraduates, their fawn-like eyes wide with astonishment, are wondering: Why


View Infante’s indictment with a dose of skepticism

Editorial: Based on the outcome of the much heralded, highly publicized Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal


Ryan rolls the dice

Opinion: In 1984, Mahoning Valley Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr., who rode a wave of popularity to a seat in


Is the Electoral College archaic? It depends on whose ox is gored

Opinion: By Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk Tribune News Service For the second time in 16 years, it appears


This election wasn’t about Trump

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate


Budget bill seeks dramatic changes

Opinion: COLUMBUS If you’ve spent any time listening to Gov. John Kasich over the past six years (or


Help campaigns to lessen holiday hardship in Valley

Editorial: With unemployment rising in the Mahoning Valley and 1,245 layoffs looming at the region’s largest


Let states decide pot laws

Opinion: Toledo Blade: The people in at least seven states decided last week to reduce restrictions on the


Be an example for girls

Opinion: By Elizabeth Souder The Dallas Morning News On the evening of Nov. 7, I hugged my nearly 5-year-


Former Niles Mayor Infante faces serious criminal charges relating to public corruption during tenure

Opinion: It’s not anyone’s place to convict someone before they are found guilty, but things certainly look


State Senate should adopt hopeful tonic for truancy

Editorial: From the Department of Cures Worse than Their Diseases comes this doozy wrapped in a longstanding


Some of our greatest minds are to be found among immigrants

Opinion: BETTINA Hoerlin and Gino Segre The Philadelphia Inquirer In 1939, when an Italian immigrant


A fake arms race

Opinion: By John B. QUIGLEY The Philadelphia Inquirer The numbers make one’s head spin. The USS Gerald