Unbelievable! How could he have organized his friends so well that no one else could even get through to the program?
The thought of him running for anything at all sends shivers of horror down my spine. And if he were elected? No corporation in the world would bring jobs to a place so filled with idiots who would vote for a do-nothing politician who did 8 years for a felony.
Minimums have a way of becoming maximums. When you set minimum expectations for what children should learn, via cirriculums and universal tests, school districts teach those minimums and nothing else. The best way to improve schools is to let the people of the community have a say in what is taught and how it is taught. We're all paying for it, but politicians are exclusively deciding what and how our children learning. Politicians that don't know our children or care about anything but test scores. Is that really how we want to run our school systems?
Oh, I forgot, Youngstown only has four libraries, the other ten are in other cities and communities. Don't the suburbs of Irving TX and Annapolis MD have libraries, too?
Youngstown only has four libraries, and one of those is falling down and about to be closed.
Please don't take your embarrassment about Jim Trafficant out on the libraries, they are two completely separate things.
Yes, it's embarrassing that some people are welcoming home a convicted felon, but what he did isn't any worse than what Michael Vick did and he's being welcomed by Philadelphia. I would never consider attending a welcome home party for either man, but that doesn't mean that others who feel differently shouldn't.
We still have freedom of expression here and if some people feel like throwing Trafficant a party, what's that to you? You don't even live here anymore, probably because the area doesn't have enough amenities to make you happy.
Can you really begrudge those residents who haven't run away from having something nice like our great library system, just because you are angry at Jim Trafficant?
I guess some people begrudge the Youngstown area even a few decent libraries. I guess we who live here should be satisfied with the dregs and leftovers from greater cities like Irving, TX and that bastion of great fiscal management--Washington, DC. We should be happy with an hour drive to the nearest library, where the predominance of senior citizens rules out services for children. We should be preparing our city to be vacated by our descendants, instead of improving it so our descendants will have a reason to stay. Yes, how shameful of Youngstown to want nice libraries with strong collections and services that look not to the past, but to the present and the future. Bad economies don't last, but short-sightedness lasts for decades. It's best that this short-sighted person who thinks three cement block libraries should be good enough for Youngstown now lives somewhere else. The last thing Youngstown needs is to be told it doesn't deserve better.
The reason Youngstown may be one of the fastest dying cities is attitudes like yours, Justice. If people believe the area is dying, it is dying. If they take a more optimistic attitude, it will survive. Youngstowners are their own worst enemies, economic-development-wise.
Fantastic! Yeah for good news about a MV business! There are a lot of success stories in the Valley, we need to see more of them. Congrats to Jordan Filippidis and Top Shelf!
Posted on September 23 at 3:12 p.m.
Unbelievable! How could he have organized his friends so well that no one else could even get through to the program?
The thought of him running for anything at all sends shivers of horror down my spine. And if he were elected? No corporation in the world would bring jobs to a place so filled with idiots who would vote for a do-nothing politician who did 8 years for a felony.
Posted on September 23 at 3:05 p.m.
Yeah!!!!!
Posted on September 1 at 4:21 p.m.
I hope they will reopen Antioch some day. It's given more to Ohio than it has ever taken from Ohio.
Posted on August 26 at 11:55 a.m.
Minimums have a way of becoming maximums. When you set minimum expectations for what children should learn, via cirriculums and universal tests, school districts teach those minimums and nothing else. The best way to improve schools is to let the people of the community have a say in what is taught and how it is taught. We're all paying for it, but politicians are exclusively deciding what and how our children learning. Politicians that don't know our children or care about anything but test scores. Is that really how we want to run our school systems?
Posted on August 18 at 4:32 p.m.
Oh, I forgot, Youngstown only has four libraries, the other ten are in other cities and communities. Don't the suburbs of Irving TX and Annapolis MD have libraries, too?
Posted on August 18 at 4:31 p.m.
Youngstown only has four libraries, and one of those is falling down and about to be closed.
Please don't take your embarrassment about Jim Trafficant out on the libraries, they are two completely separate things.
Yes, it's embarrassing that some people are welcoming home a convicted felon, but what he did isn't any worse than what Michael Vick did and he's being welcomed by Philadelphia. I would never consider attending a welcome home party for either man, but that doesn't mean that others who feel differently shouldn't.
We still have freedom of expression here and if some people feel like throwing Trafficant a party, what's that to you? You don't even live here anymore, probably because the area doesn't have enough amenities to make you happy.
Can you really begrudge those residents who haven't run away from having something nice like our great library system, just because you are angry at Jim Trafficant?
Posted on August 18 at 4:10 p.m.
I guess some people begrudge the Youngstown area even a few decent libraries. I guess we who live here should be satisfied with the dregs and leftovers from greater cities like Irving, TX and that bastion of great fiscal management--Washington, DC. We should be happy with an hour drive to the nearest library, where the predominance of senior citizens rules out services for children. We should be preparing our city to be vacated by our descendants, instead of improving it so our descendants will have a reason to stay. Yes, how shameful of Youngstown to want nice libraries with strong collections and services that look not to the past, but to the present and the future. Bad economies don't last, but short-sightedness lasts for decades. It's best that this short-sighted person who thinks three cement block libraries should be good enough for Youngstown now lives somewhere else. The last thing Youngstown needs is to be told it doesn't deserve better.
Posted on August 10 at 7:52 p.m.
The reason Youngstown may be one of the fastest dying cities is attitudes like yours, Justice. If people believe the area is dying, it is dying. If they take a more optimistic attitude, it will survive. Youngstowners are their own worst enemies, economic-development-wise.
Posted on July 27 at 2:36 p.m.
Fantastic! Yeah for good news about a MV business! There are a lot of success stories in the Valley, we need to see more of them. Congrats to Jordan Filippidis and Top Shelf!
Posted on July 13 at 5:28 p.m.
I'm glad he's helping them because they really need it.
I respect how hard Tim works for the Valley!