Opinion and Editorial

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Jail not proper venue for psychiatric-care inmates

Editorial: An exhaustive series by The Vindicator on mental-health care and drug-addiction treatment should


Wanted: Competent leader

Opinion: Wanted: Competent leader First of all, it is very very unsettling the world we live in today. A


Chicago and our selfie crisis

Opinion: Last week, I outlined reporter Denise Dick’s work in reporting on questionable spending by


Rhodes scholar honor reflects well on Orr, YSU

Editorial: Should you happen to see Columbiana High School graduate and Youngstown State University senior


Wait-and-see treatment approach recognizes that some cancers do not pose a threat to health

Opinion: By H. GILBERT WELCH Los Angeles Times There’s a new cancer treatment strategy in the news: Wait


Trump in all his glory

Opinion: COLUMBUS If you haven’t experienced Donald Trump speaking in person, you are missing the full


Republicans show media bias

Opinion: By Cass R. SUNSTEIN Bloomberg View For Republican presidential contenders challenged by the


Reading between political lines

Opinion: It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different


State-testing scores show good, bad districts in area

Editorial: Let’s begin with a stand- ing ovation for the school districts in Mahoning and Trumbull counties


Giving thanks in Indian country

Opinion: By Mark Anthony Rolo Tribune News Service Ever since the arrival of Europeans some 500 years


Pollard should get out, stay out

Opinion: By Dan K. THOMASSON Tribune News Service WASHINGTON One would hope we had heard the last of


Kindness of Native Americans

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Thanksgiving is here. Let’s eat! America’s most food- focused


Keeping children safe

Opinion: About 1.3 million children have been reported missing this year in the United States, more than


Pass the turkey, but keep essence of Thanksgiving

Editorial: As citizens of the United States, as residents of the Mahoning Valley and as members of proud


Tressels continue to show their commitment to YSU

Editorial: Even before they became Youngstown State University’s first couple, James and Ellen Tressel were