Gerberry and O'Brien are the types of politicians who got us in debt in the first place! What a truly stupid idea! Is this lunacy what we taxpayers get from these Socialist Democrats who run this valley?? They never saw a dollar they didn't want to spend.... and especially if they belonged to someone else! It isn't raining boys.... and we just might need that money later when things get really tough! You all supported repeal of SB5.... now live with the consequences! Citizens of Austintown narrowly approved a new tax levy for police spending...boy did we need that like a hole in the head. When taxpayers here get tired of the profligate local politicians they promote them to county commissioner to make all of the county suffer with their bad policy and horrible financial budget skills. God protect us from fools like these!
St Brendan's has very good fish dinners every Friday from 4-7pm; and has takeout lunches from 11am-1-pm on Friday too! I'm told you cannot go wrong there!!
Bob Hagan is perhaps the biggest joke of all time, and he fits this valley to a tee. Narrow and bigoted, and fighting hard to prevent anyone from voicing their opinion IF it doesn't agree with him and his Socialist Democrat partyline. He is a good reader, and can accurately repeat anything and everything he's told to say.... as most good little Socialist Democrats are! But my parrot is cheaper and he sounds better!
Perhaps Rush used intemperate language in describing Ms Fluke, but this type of controversy is just what Ms Fluke and her handlers (the Socialist Democrats in Washington) wanted to create! It forces everyone to focus on everything but the issue at hand, which is that if Ms Fluke wants to live a loose and immoral lifestyle she should pay for her contraception herself.... she is long over the emancipated age of 18 and can do with her life as she wants! But the only reason this woman is going to Georgetown (a Catholic University) is to push this issue until she gets the school to ignore their values and provide her and all other unnamed students with contraceptives, abortions, and all manner of after pregnancy abortives. Clearly, she should be attending another school....and there are many, many in that area. Let's call it what it is... a blatant attempt to cast anyone, including the Catholic Church, who is pro-life, in a bad light and to support the monstrosity called ObamaCare and all its rules and regs to be defined later! Rush was right to call her and the Socialist Democrats out, but he should have been more subtle with the name calling.... like when the Demigogs called Bush a Hitler and a Fascist and many, many more names .... none of which they've apologized for to this day!!
The Vindicator editorial board sure has changed over the years! You have a high paid executive of a non-profit organization who hires lots of relatives who like himself are ill qualified and keep no records, probably intentionally, and mis-appropriate taxpayer dollars (translation - OUR money) which is supposed to help the needy so they aren't "under served" and the Vindy ed's say we should give this group another chance???? OUR money isn't easy to replace!! Years ago the vindicator would have called for their heads on a platter and asked that the whole program be shut down!! Shows what happens when you become Socialists I guess! My call - Roller and Co should be investigated, charged, and prosecuted for theft in office. MYCAP should be shut down and private charity groups (churches, etc) should be entrusted with supporting those who need it. The Vindicator editorial board should fire themselves and hire someone with half a brain!
This Austintown resident will not ever support another local tax levy, whether new or replacement. We've been lied to just once too often, and this lie is the straw that broke the camels back! The trustees all came out opposed to SB5 telling us all that they didn't need SB5 provisions to effectively control their public sector costs regardless of state funding cuts! Not two months later here they are asking for more money again! we knew they were lying before, but they sure are hypocritical to ask for more money this quickly after all the things they said in defense of their union supporters. Maybe we need to recall these folks and find some good honest conservative citizens to cut Austintown's budget to the available tax level. Maybe close the park, cut the heat in the offices, meet once per month, cut all other unnecessary spending on anything and everything not needed (like parades, concerts, etc). Most of us have already pared back to bare bones....let them do so as well! It is called "shared sacrifice".
Doesn't matter! The trustees all spoke out against SB5, which would have begun to bring public sector wages, benefits, contributions, and bargaining back toward private sector tax payer levels. In fact, every local Socialist Democrat politician did the same. They all said "we don't need SB5 provisions to effectively bargain"!! Now all we hear a few months later is tax increases (which we cannot afford), and big new Mahoning county budgets which obviously precede coming requests for more and more taxes we cannot afford!! My solution .... go fish! I will never ever believe these two-faced local pol's again, and I will never, ever vote for any new or replacement tax levies again! Can we get a conservative to run against these three liberal spenders? April Fools comes early in Austintown this year..... everyone bought the lies of the unions and their political beneficiaries and now Austintown residents the joke is on you!!
A vote for Obama, or any other Socialist-Democrat is a vote against America and yourself!! Wake up! Unless you are a Socialist or a Communist (just review all the folks Obama has and is associating with if you don't believe me) please do not ever again vote for this crowd. Obama's promised "transformation" is well under way! Do your homework, find out for yourself and whatever you do vote for America, our Constitution and the future not for us but for our children and grandchildren!
Regardless of the other chatter about this situation, their is no doubt something must be done. SB5 addressed this issue and lots of others and, if folks had bothered to read it, was a good deal for everyone. Union mis-information campaigns (teachers unable to advocate for our children; police, fire and emergency folks unable to bargain for better staffing and equipment - all too laughably not their biggest concerns!!) killed this good and much needed reform legislation. Now we are hearing of bigger budgets needed for our county and our townships from administrators and trustees who stood with their union supporters against the people who must pay for it!! I'll not vote for one more tax increase or replacement levy until I see the real problems addressed.... and public sector unions work rules, pay and benefits brought in line with private sector. I encourage everyone to do the same!
This editorial is so lopsided as to be truly offensive to anyone with a brain! Does the Vindicator really think that compromise is something only Republicans and conservatives must do?? Harry Reid and his Senate socialists skate off to their "Holiday" break leaving a two month extension of payroll tax cuts on the table and the Vindicator thinks that is compromise?? Unbelievable! The House has sent over twenty-eight pieces of legislation addressing improving our destroyed economy to the totally corrupt and morally bankrupt Senate (who has failed to provide a budget for 3 years!!) and the Vindicator ignores this fact and beats up the Republicans and conservatives yet again!! Get your head out into the light of day and address the real problem please. Socialism (and Communism) doesn't work anywhere, and it sure won't work here!! Wake up editors.... your left leaning bias is all to clear to those of us who think and read!! Cheers to House conservatives..... vote no on the two month extension and bring the Senate back to do some real work for, not against, we the people!!!!
Reps to introduce bill to restore cuts
Gerberry and O'Brien are the types of politicians who got us in debt in the first place! What a truly stupid idea! Is this lunacy what we taxpayers get from these Socialist Democrats who run this valley?? They never saw a dollar they didn't want to spend.... and especially if they belonged to someone else! It isn't raining boys.... and we just might need that money later when things get really tough! You all supported repeal of SB5.... now live with the consequences! Citizens of Austintown narrowly approved a new tax levy for police spending...boy did we need that like a hole in the head. When taxpayers here get tired of the profligate local politicians they promote them to county commissioner to make all of the county suffer with their bad policy and horrible financial budget skills. God protect us from fools like these!
March 7, 2012 at 8:21 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Direct me to a good fish fry!!!!
St Brendan's has very good fish dinners every Friday from 4-7pm; and has takeout lunches from 11am-1-pm on Friday too! I'm told you cannot go wrong there!!
March 7, 2012 at 8:11 p.m. permalink suggest removal
UPDATE: Hagan petition to get Limbaugh off Youngstown airwaves gaining support
Bob Hagan is perhaps the biggest joke of all time, and he fits this valley to a tee. Narrow and bigoted, and fighting hard to prevent anyone from voicing their opinion IF it doesn't agree with him and his Socialist Democrat partyline. He is a good reader, and can accurately repeat anything and everything he's told to say.... as most good little Socialist Democrats are! But my parrot is cheaper and he sounds better!
March 7, 2012 at 8:05 p.m. permalink suggest removal
UPDATE: Hagan petition to get Limbaugh off Youngstown airwaves gaining support
Perhaps Rush used intemperate language in describing Ms Fluke, but this type of controversy is just what Ms Fluke and her handlers (the Socialist Democrats in Washington) wanted to create! It forces everyone to focus on everything but the issue at hand, which is that if Ms Fluke wants to live a loose and immoral lifestyle she should pay for her contraception herself.... she is long over the emancipated age of 18 and can do with her life as she wants! But the only reason this woman is going to Georgetown (a Catholic University) is to push this issue until she gets the school to ignore their values and provide her and all other unnamed students with contraceptives, abortions, and all manner of after pregnancy abortives. Clearly, she should be attending another school....and there are many, many in that area. Let's call it what it is... a blatant attempt to cast anyone, including the Catholic Church, who is pro-life, in a bad light and to support the monstrosity called ObamaCare and all its rules and regs to be defined later! Rush was right to call her and the Socialist Democrats out, but he should have been more subtle with the name calling.... like when the Demigogs called Bush a Hitler and a Fascist and many, many more names .... none of which they've apologized for to this day!!
March 7, 2012 at 7:56 p.m. permalink suggest removal
White House cannot allow crucial city agency to close
The Vindicator editorial board sure has changed over the years! You have a high paid executive of a non-profit organization who hires lots of relatives who like himself are ill qualified and keep no records, probably intentionally, and mis-appropriate taxpayer dollars (translation - OUR money) which is supposed to help the needy so they aren't "under served" and the Vindy ed's say we should give this group another chance???? OUR money isn't easy to replace!! Years ago the vindicator would have called for their heads on a platter and asked that the whole program be shut down!! Shows what happens when you become Socialists I guess! My call - Roller and Co should be investigated, charged, and prosecuted for theft in office. MYCAP should be shut down and private charity groups (churches, etc) should be entrusted with supporting those who need it. The Vindicator editorial board should fire themselves and hire someone with half a brain!
December 29, 2011 at 3:07 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown officials seek replacement levy
This Austintown resident will not ever support another local tax levy, whether new or replacement. We've been lied to just once too often, and this lie is the straw that broke the camels back! The trustees all came out opposed to SB5 telling us all that they didn't need SB5 provisions to effectively control their public sector costs regardless of state funding cuts! Not two months later here they are asking for more money again! we knew they were lying before, but they sure are hypocritical to ask for more money this quickly after all the things they said in defense of their union supporters. Maybe we need to recall these folks and find some good honest conservative citizens to cut Austintown's budget to the available tax level. Maybe close the park, cut the heat in the offices, meet once per month, cut all other unnecessary spending on anything and everything not needed (like parades, concerts, etc). Most of us have already pared back to bare bones....let them do so as well! It is called "shared sacrifice".
December 29, 2011 at 2:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown seeks replacement of police levy
Doesn't matter! The trustees all spoke out against SB5, which would have begun to bring public sector wages, benefits, contributions, and bargaining back toward private sector tax payer levels. In fact, every local Socialist Democrat politician did the same. They all said "we don't need SB5 provisions to effectively bargain"!! Now all we hear a few months later is tax increases (which we cannot afford), and big new Mahoning county budgets which obviously precede coming requests for more and more taxes we cannot afford!! My solution .... go fish! I will never ever believe these two-faced local pol's again, and I will never, ever vote for any new or replacement tax levies again! Can we get a conservative to run against these three liberal spenders? April Fools comes early in Austintown this year..... everyone bought the lies of the unions and their political beneficiaries and now Austintown residents the joke is on you!!
December 29, 2011 at 2:37 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Obama should run scared
A vote for Obama, or any other Socialist-Democrat is a vote against America and yourself!! Wake up! Unless you are a Socialist or a Communist (just review all the folks Obama has and is associating with if you don't believe me) please do not ever again vote for this crowd. Obama's promised "transformation" is well under way! Do your homework, find out for yourself and whatever you do vote for America, our Constitution and the future not for us but for our children and grandchildren!
December 21, 2011 at 11:15 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Public pensions in free fall
Regardless of the other chatter about this situation, their is no doubt something must be done. SB5 addressed this issue and lots of others and, if folks had bothered to read it, was a good deal for everyone. Union mis-information campaigns (teachers unable to advocate for our children; police, fire and emergency folks unable to bargain for better staffing and equipment - all too laughably not their biggest concerns!!) killed this good and much needed reform legislation. Now we are hearing of bigger budgets needed for our county and our townships from administrators and trustees who stood with their union supporters against the people who must pay for it!! I'll not vote for one more tax increase or replacement levy until I see the real problems addressed.... and public sector unions work rules, pay and benefits brought in line with private sector. I encourage everyone to do the same!
December 20, 2011 at 10:52 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Compromise needed to extend tax cuts, unemployment pay
This editorial is so lopsided as to be truly offensive to anyone with a brain! Does the Vindicator really think that compromise is something only Republicans and conservatives must do?? Harry Reid and his Senate socialists skate off to their "Holiday" break leaving a two month extension of payroll tax cuts on the table and the Vindicator thinks that is compromise?? Unbelievable! The House has sent over twenty-eight pieces of legislation addressing improving our destroyed economy to the totally corrupt and morally bankrupt Senate (who has failed to provide a budget for 3 years!!) and the Vindicator ignores this fact and beats up the Republicans and conservatives yet again!! Get your head out into the light of day and address the real problem please. Socialism (and Communism) doesn't work anywhere, and it sure won't work here!! Wake up editors.... your left leaning bias is all to clear to those of us who think and read!! Cheers to House conservatives..... vote no on the two month extension and bring the Senate back to do some real work for, not against, we the people!!!!
December 20, 2011 at 10:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal