Opinion and Editorial

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Crime can pay if it’s big enough

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Wow, $5 billion. That’s the stunning amount Goldman Sachs has


Women targets of abuse

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune Just Not Sports, a podcast founded by three guys who talk to


Freely blathering about free trade

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Free trade? Catch that thing. Wrap it up. Throw it in the


Habitat Crazies see much good in people of Valley

Opinion: Habitat Crazies see much good in people of Valley I know the Youngs- town region has had its share


Dubious spending priorities

Opinion: Here’s a quick quiz that should put in perspective Ohio’s $2.6 billion biennial capital-improvements


Mill Creek Park is test for probate Judge Rusu

Editorial: After a year and nine months on the bench, Mahoning County Probate Judge Robert N. Rusu is making


Leader of Academic Distress panel shares vision for city schools’ future

Opinion: On July 16, 2015, an amendment to the existing Ohio Revised Code House Bill 70, which deals with


GM Lordstown has much to celebrate in its 50 years

Editorial: A small item this week in Years Ago, The Vindicator’s daily history column, stood out among others


Kasich, Cruz teaming up is a joke

Opinion: By Gary Stein Sun Sentinel You thought the Republican presidential primary race couldn’t get any


Dann rebounds from past of scandal

Opinion: I ran into Marc Dann the other day at the Statehouse. Yes, that Marc Dann, the one-time state


Rise of radical right-wing parties in Europe are a reflection of the diminishing faith in democracy

Opinion: The greatest threat to American security is something most Americans never think of. President


Yavorcik has suffered for crimes despite avoiding time behind bars

Opinion: “The court finds that a community control/probation sanction will adequately protect the public and


Politics, religion intersect

Opinion: LOUISVILLE Religion and politics are again at the forefront of this year’s presidential race. Yet,


Can Sanders still have an impact?

Opinion: By Michael McGough Los Angeles Times Despite his abysmal showing on the latest Super Tuesday –


Respect for dead demands rehabilitation of cemetery

Editorial: All cemeteries, burial sites and repositories of human remains, regardless of historic period or