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What would you do?
You're standing in front of a neighborhood store when a man walks up to the front door carrying a rifle, dons a mask, enters and demands money from the clerk. Customers in the store rush out. The armed robber goes behind the counter, opens the cash registers, grabs cash and …
Marc Dann's selective cronyism
Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann contends that by taking politics and cronyism out of the debt collections process, the office during his 14-month tenure recovered a record $344 million for various state agencies. The two individuals he put in charge of going after unpaid income and sales taxes and …
A message from Don L. Hanni Jr.
"Hello, Bertram, this is your chairman. Miss me yet?""Hey, chairman, where are you?""In Limbo. Story of my life! Reason I'm calling from wherever is to urge you to persuade my sons and daughters to drop their idea of having my body lie in state in the rotunda of the Mahoning …
Clash of the black titans
Two of the most prominent black residents of the Mahoning Valley are embroiled in a very public battle over the Chevrolet Centre in downtown Youngstown and unless Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams and Valley businessman Herb Washington resolve their differences, their fight could spill over into next year's mayoral election.Williams' first …
Twenty-five years later ...
An entry in the Years Ago column on Page A5 of Thursday's Vindicator is a testament to the incompetence of local government. Here's how the entry reads: "Julian Suso, a development consultant hired by the Youngstown Revitalization Foundation, says the entranceways to the city have to be cleaned up."It is …