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Working at YSU is a choice

Opinion: Working at YSU is a choice I would like to respond to the Oct. 30 letter from the gentleman from


For once, debate the big issues

Opinion: WASHINGTON The Republican presidential candidates, their sinews stiffened and their blood summoned


Don’t cut defense

Opinion: By James Jay Carafano Heritage Foundation There are many ways to balance a budget. Most of us,


Need for public transportation is evident in Trumbull County

Editorial: Asking voters to approve a tax increase in the midst of an economic recession is not something we do


SB 5 is too broad, too divisive; a no vote on Issue 2 is urged

Editorial: It is impossible to argue that public employees in the state of Ohio can continue to expect to live


Kasich, Obama on the hot seat

Opinion: Let there be no doubt that if State Issue 2 (a referendum on Ohio’s new collective bargaining reform


Democracy, majority rule and the effect of gerrymandering

Opinion: Following the American Rev- olution the compromise between small and large states that led to the


Concern over fracking in the park

Opinion: Concern over fracking in the park In the early ’90s, I lived in a house in Boardman that bordered


You’re enlisted: Find Valley’s war monuments

Opinion: It was a long and tedious path to link up Polish Gens. Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko with a


Partisan divide on display

Opinion: COLUMBUS If you want to know just how politically tense the atmosphere at the Ohio Statehouse has


For Poland school board: incumbents Zedaker, Shovlin

Editorial: The two incumbents seeking re- election to the Poland Board of Education offer some interesting


Jeswald-DiVito earns support

Editorial: After more than 12 years as a trustee in Poland Township, Annette Jeswald-DiVito has a firm grasp


Show pride in Canfield schools

Opinion: Show pride in Canfield schools A number of weeks ago, we were invited to co-chair the school levy


City residents working to improve neighborhoods

Opinion: One of the positive things I am seeing in Youngstown is people coming together to make their


Press treats Democrats, Republicans differently

Opinion: When it comes to sex, the media apply different standards to Republicans and Democrats. Arkansas