Maybe Mooney can work out a deal to move into P. Ross Berry or Volney Rogers. Both buildings are brand new and being closed in the proposed school plan.
Ytown keeps its income taxes, Youngstown schools avoid competing (and losing dollars to) a new Charter school and Mooney parents don't need to raise millions of dollars to build a school.
To the author of this letter, I would like to make a few suggestions that may increase attendance at all of our local theater venues.
1) Have a consolidated Performance list either on a website or Facebook page that includes all the local theaters.
I thought MV Theatre Buzz would do this, but it focuses more on auditions. And your YACTA website only lists a few performances that are mostly over. I want to know what is planned for next month, not last month.
2) Include info on how to purchase tickets, driving directions, etc with the events
3) Look into a services like Eventbrite to allow online tickets sales. If all the theaters collaborated and used this together the costs would be minimal compared to increased sales
4) Post production dates well in advance
5) Advertise. If the theaters do this as a group, again the costs would be reduced for all... And Facebook is free! The City of Youngstown account has a huge following and shares events and pages for local groups all the time
I would love to attend the theater more often. But I do not have time to check multiple theaters to find upcoming performances... and then play phone tag in order to buy/reserve tickets... and then scramble to find a babysitter at the last minute...
Use the power of the internet to your advantage - it is cheap, fast and effective!
There is ONE Principal at each school building. There is ONE Assistant Principal and that is at the High School. There is NO Curriculum Director. There is NO Assistant Superintendent. There is NO Assistant Treasurer.
Please take a look at our surrounding districts. Poland is as lean as it gets for Administrators. Most of them do the job of two, and yet people like you still think they make too much. Geez.
And our elementary kids DO have Music and Art. They are taught by the classroom teachers who are doing an amazing job. But I am sure you think they make too much too.
Please. Go to a Board meeting. Educate yourself on the financial situation of our school caused by funding cuts and unfunded mandates all courtesy of the State of Ohio.
The Covelli Centre which currently has only SIX non-hockey related events booked for the rest of this year, feels they could make more money without hockey?
If they are loosing $200 a game, why not charge Zoldan that cost? Isn't drawing people to the arena ""free" advertising for upcoming events? Not to mention for the downtown?
At no point when this facility was built was there ever a plan for how this community could support it. And now they want to kick out something that at least draws people there frequently? Only in Youngstown...
@76Ytown - great post and link. It concerns me that "school security" and "gun control" are becoming one and the same. School shootings generally involve 1) someone known to the school 2) prior incidents with the individual 3) access to a legally purchased gun
School Resource officers providing education to students, staff and parents about what to report can easily become the singular point of info to "connect the dots". Requirements for locked storage of guns helps reduce access.
Armed guards in school are not the answer, and locked doors and buzzers were in place at Sandy Hook and did not prevent that tragedy.
Training and awareness are the key components for schools.
@nipsy – I like the idea of a tax on gun and ammo sales for the schools!
@VindyYAK – I agree that existing laws are not even enforced. And in some cases, there are no laws to punish stupidity even when the prosecution tries (think about the father whose lack of gun knowledge about how to empty the chamber recently killed his 7yo son). In a dream world the NRA would encourage gun owners to properly learn how to use and secure their weapons rather than encourage them to buy more.
@76ytown - while I will agree that video games and movies may "desensitize" violence, they are not the cause of gun violence. For data, just look at every other country that has video games and movies and very strict gun laws.
@walter_sobchak - I think that if your gun is "stolen" or “borrowed” from your possession because it was not SECURED and it is used in a crime, you are in part responsible. Hopefully if you have a conceal carry, you can use the gun to defend yourself rather than having it stolen and/or used against you. But I am not sure that a one day CC class gives you that level of skill. So I am willing there are an awful lot of unqualified people carrying guns “legally”.
City council wants Mooney to stay in Youngstown
Maybe Mooney can work out a deal to move into P. Ross Berry or Volney Rogers. Both buildings are brand new and being closed in the proposed school plan.
Ytown keeps its income taxes, Youngstown schools avoid competing (and losing dollars to) a new Charter school and Mooney parents don't need to raise millions of dollars to build a school.
April 9, 2013 at 2:08 p.m. permalink suggest removal
The arts enrich us all
To the author of this letter, I would like to make a few suggestions that may increase attendance at all of our local theater venues.
1) Have a consolidated Performance list either on a website or Facebook page that includes all the local theaters.
I thought MV Theatre Buzz would do this, but it focuses more on auditions. And your YACTA website only lists a few performances that are mostly over. I want to know what is planned for next month, not last month.
2) Include info on how to purchase tickets, driving directions, etc with the events
3) Look into a services like Eventbrite to allow online tickets sales. If all the theaters collaborated and used this together the costs would be minimal compared to increased sales
4) Post production dates well in advance
5) Advertise. If the theaters do this as a group, again the costs would be reduced for all... And Facebook is free! The City of Youngstown account has a huge following and shares events and pages for local groups all the time
I would love to attend the theater more often. But I do not have time to check multiple theaters to find upcoming performances... and then play phone tag in order to buy/reserve tickets... and then scramble to find a babysitter at the last minute...
Use the power of the internet to your advantage - it is cheap, fast and effective!
March 21, 2013 at 1:44 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Poland BOE appoints Janofa new chief of schools
“Top heavy with administrators”?
REALLY??
There is ONE Principal at each school building.
There is ONE Assistant Principal and that is at the High School.
There is NO Curriculum Director.
There is NO Assistant Superintendent.
There is NO Assistant Treasurer.
Please take a look at our surrounding districts. Poland is as lean as it gets for Administrators. Most of them do the job of two, and yet people like you still think they make too much. Geez.
And our elementary kids DO have Music and Art. They are taught by the classroom teachers who are doing an amazing job. But I am sure you think they make too much too.
Please. Go to a Board meeting. Educate yourself on the financial situation of our school caused by funding cuts and unfunded mandates all courtesy of the State of Ohio.
March 20, 2013 at 2:15 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Poland BOE appoints Janofa new chief of schools
Natureman, do you really think that $104,000 is a large salary to be CEO of a $20,000,000 organization?
Passing the levy has nothing to do with the salary. Dr Zorn earned $96,000 in 2005 before he retired/rehired.
Why don't we give the guy a chance before we start focusing on rumors from the past??
March 20, 2013 at 1:41 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Could this be hockey's last season at the Covelli Centre?
So let me get this straight....
The Covelli Centre which currently has only SIX non-hockey related events booked for the rest of this year, feels they could make more money without hockey?
If they are loosing $200 a game, why not charge Zoldan that cost? Isn't drawing people to the arena ""free" advertising for upcoming events? Not to mention for the downtown?
At no point when this facility was built was there ever a plan for how this community could support it. And now they want to kick out something that at least draws people there frequently? Only in Youngstown...
March 11, 2013 at 10:18 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Fundraising under way to continue YSU English Fest
To donate to the English Festival fund, go to www.ysuenglishfestival.org.
February 21, 2013 at 9:25 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Enforce the law, then ask for more
@76Ytown - great post and link. It concerns me that "school security" and "gun control" are becoming one and the same. School shootings generally involve 1) someone known to the school 2) prior incidents with the individual 3) access to a legally purchased gun
School Resource officers providing education to students, staff and parents about what to report can easily become the singular point of info to "connect the dots". Requirements for locked storage of guns helps reduce access.
Armed guards in school are not the answer, and locked doors and buzzers were in place at Sandy Hook and did not prevent that tragedy.
Training and awareness are the key components for schools.
January 25, 2013 at 12:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal
The truth behind gun violence
FIVE schools have had shootings in the first 22 days of 2013.
Yeah Second Amendment! I am sure this is exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
January 23, 2013 at 10:06 a.m. permalink suggest removal
The truth behind gun violence
@unusuallyblunt - if you are not interested in "opinions" then maybe you should not be reading the Opinion Columns....
But since you are so much more qualified that I am, what are your opinions on how to reduce gun violence?
January 22, 2013 at 3:10 p.m. permalink suggest removal
The truth behind gun violence
@nipsy – I like the idea of a tax on gun and ammo sales for the schools!
@VindyYAK – I agree that existing laws are not even enforced. And in some cases, there are no laws to punish stupidity even when the prosecution tries (think about the father whose lack of gun knowledge about how to empty the chamber recently killed his 7yo son). In a dream world the NRA would encourage gun owners to properly learn how to use and secure their weapons rather than encourage them to buy more.
@76ytown - while I will agree that video games and movies may "desensitize" violence, they are not the cause of gun violence. For data, just look at every other country that has video games and movies and very strict gun laws.
@walter_sobchak - I think that if your gun is "stolen" or “borrowed” from your possession because it was not SECURED and it is used in a crime, you are in part responsible. Hopefully if you have a conceal carry, you can use the gun to defend yourself rather than having it stolen and/or used against you. But I am not sure that a one day CC class gives you that level of skill. So I am willing there are an awful lot of unqualified people carrying guns “legally”.
January 22, 2013 at 1:27 p.m. permalink suggest removal