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WRITER: Brenda J. Linert

Election uncertainty? Just read the issues

Marching through election season, especially in recent years, has been hard. It brings increasingly ugly candidate debates and divisiveness among political parties, along with voters. Advertisements embellish candidates’ accomplishments, or worse, tear down and sometimes (often) lie about opponents’ backgrounds. This is not to mention the lies and confusing interpretations all over social media created ...

Court document outlines Jan. 6 defendant’s crimes

Volumes of video recordings and photographs showcase hundreds of people clamoring up exterior walls and through hallowed halls of our nation’s Capitol. They depict intruders’ use of tools like make-shift battering rams or hatchets to shatter windows as they attempted to gain entry to locked rooms amid chaos. Still, frequent cries come from some claiming the Jan. 6, 2021, attack somehow was staged or ...

Share your grateful thoughts with us this season

Just last week I finally got around to hanging the autumn wreaths on my doors at home, along with the fabric “ghosts” that my mother gave me years ago, to blow around as the wind whips onto my front porch. The weather has gotten extremely “crisp,” seemingly overnight, and my dad recently pointed out to my husband that he doesn’t recall the leaves ever falling from the trees as quickly as they have ...

‘Go pink’ to raise breast cancer awareness

Headlines carried beneath our newspaper’s flag emblazoned in rare pink last week spoke of the “War” against breast cancer, “Pinking out” in Austintown, and “Warriors” who gathered for the large annual luncheon intended to honor local breast cancer survivors. It occurred to me too late that some readers might be puzzled about why the newspaper’s front page was awash in bright pink last Sunday. ...

Believe it or not, it’s that time again

A co-worker recently posted a photo on Facebook depicting the Christmas displays at a local home improvement store. With it, he offered a simple one-word caption. “Really?” Yes, Christmas decor is a bit premature, but what isn’t premature is the arrival of autumn about 10 days ago. With it comes cooler nights, onset of fall foliage and, yes, election season. In my business, this is the time of year ...

Our error doesn’t change our position

An editorial that appeared on last Sunday’s Opinion page called on local school districts to consider consolidating administrations to help save hundreds of thousands of dollars countywide. The concept of regionalization and consolidation among Mahoning Valley school districts is one that our newspaper has promoted for years. It makes good sense and we continue to stand by it. Unfortunately, some ...

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