Opinion and Editorial

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A need to build bridges

Opinion: By David W. BROWN The Philadelphia Inquirer It started with a simple gesture. Find a few


Killing spree of Mexican mayors

Opinion: MEXICO CITY Most of Donald Trump’s statements about Mexico are the product of ignorance, racism


Y’town school busing flap demands that heads roll

Opinion: To understand the serious- ness of the state’s searing report on the Youngstown City School


Where was columnist’s criticism of Mrs. Clinton?

Opinion: Where was columnist’s criticism of Mrs. Clinton? Vindicator colum- nist Bertram de Souza was on


Greatest started with luck and a hunch

Opinion: Starting Monday, we get great. Er, Greatest. The Vindicator is a proud founder and host for


Where are the public payrolls?

Opinion: With Mahoning County and Beaver Township as the only local governments in the Mahoning Valley to


All eyes on the Silver State

Opinion: LAS VEGAS Nevada, which calls itself the “Battle Born State,” actually was born prematurely


Trump crossed the line with incendiary remark

Editorial: Donald J. Trump was well aware of what he was saying when he spewed venom about Hillary Clinton –


There’s nothing like summer dawn

Opinion: By Michael Carroll The Philadelphia Inquirer Summer afternoons and evenings can be unbearable


Non-Christians paved our way

Opinion: By Rekha Basu Des Moines Register The wealthy Indus Valley cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro,


Online schools to get scrutiny

Opinion: A little more than a year ago, after much earlier balking, state lawmakers moved a charter-school


Anti-fracking proposal back on Youngstown ballot for 6th time; failure doesn’t faze proponents

Opinion: Two citizen-initiative charter-amendment proposals will be in front of Youngstown voters in the fall


Obama’s secrecy mission

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Don’t look too closely at what we do. That’s the order from


Short-term pain paves way to long-term gains for city

Editorial: We can already hear the assorted moans, groans, gripes and snipes among irritable motorists


US fails victims of crime

Opinion: By Grace Meng Los Angeles Times The United States is failing victims of crime in a multitude of