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Opinion and Editorial
Please note, our last day of publication was Saturday, August 31, 2019.
Opinion | Our Voice | Columns Todd Franko Bertram de Souza David Skolnick Ernie Brown | Letters
Specter of a sequester
Opinion: WASHINGTON It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the
Uninsured driver avoids citation
Opinion: Uninsured driver avoids citation Not long ago I was traveling in Lordstown and was in an auto
Reviewing Reagan’s record
Opinion: At this point in his first term, President Ronald Reagan’s unemployment rate was 9.4 percent; President Obama’s is 9.1.
Government jobs are killing us
Opinion: At the risk of incurring the wrath and rants of David Betras, Democratic Party chairman, and his union followers, I have to comment. I am not registered with either party and vote for the candidate and not the party and urge others to do so.
A computer isn’t the postman
Opinion: There’s been a lot of talk lately about the postal service switching to a three-day-a-week delivery schedule. They feel that computers and private delivery services such as FedEx and UPS can handle the job. Unfortunately, even in today’s electronic age many people, including many seniors, do not have computers or are not computer savvy.
And the beat goes on
Opinion: More than a year to go until the next national election and already political candidates are on the stump ‘responding’ to Americans and ‘fighting’ for their needs.
What does history sound like?
Editorial: It is more than a musical instrument. It is a link to a time when Youngstown was emerging as one of the nation’s great industrial centers. It was home to tens of thousands of men who made steel and to a smaller but equally important group of men who founded and nurtured some of the great companies of the day, who designed and built the equipment that produced steel in plants around the world and who invented revolutionary processes for making and milling steel.
A model life — cancer and all
Opinion: The photo of Tim Maiorca has him in swim trunks coming out of a frigid Lake George. Staci Wills’
Are paper ballots way to go?
Editorial: When officials of the Mahoning County Board of Elections revealed last week their plan to bring back paper ballots to replace the electronic touch-screen voting system that has been in use for nine years, we wondered what had changed since January 2008 when board members argued that it was easier to tamper with paper ballots than the touch screens.
YSU’s success is the priority
Opinion: Ohio Revised Code states that the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees “shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful continuous operation of the university.” As members of the YSU Board of Trustees we take that charge and our fiduciary responsibility seriously, and that is why we are writing this letter today.
Finally, a Democrat with guts
Opinion: It was a political smack down that resonated throughout the state of Ohio. But the ramifications go way beyond House Minority Leader Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, refusing to be a patsy for Speaker William Batchelder, R-Medina.
Water wars heating up
Opinion: The Albany (Ga.) Herald: An issue that’s been going for decades involving Georgia, Alabama and
WikiLeaks turns the spotlight on U.N. peacekeepers’ crimes
Editorial: What is the cost of food or lodg- ing in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which has been
Democrats find a voice at ballot box
Opinion: COLUMBUS I’m starting to wonder whether Ohio’s general election ballots for the next three years
Valley workers are the best
Opinion: The Japanese learned our statistical quality control methods from us, the good old USA. I was one of