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Opinion

Solving Ohio’s housing crisis needs teamwork

You’re not imagining things. Taxes just keep getting higher and higher — at least when it comes to property taxes. Axios, an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia, reports median property taxes in Ohio rose 23.1% from 2019 to 2023. That’s higher than the national average ...

Ending the ACP is a step in the wrong direction

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown recently came together to urge Congress to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program as funding that provides monthly discounts toward high-speed internet will expire at the end of this month. We must join their call to action, ...

Youngstown must stop costly flubs in home demolitions

Over the past two decades, the city of Youngstown has undertaken the herculean task of demolishing thousands of blighted homes and properties that posed serious public safety and health hazards. On numerous occasions over those years, this newspaper has saluted city leaders in the fire, ...

Orchids and onions

ORCHID: To the Canfield Board of Education for recognizing the reality that school district taxpayers have spoken loud and clear about physical improvements to facilities. The school board earlier this month reviewed plans for a scaled-down plan that centers largely around the construction of ...

Know, find out what candidates have done

DEAR EDITOR: The “Abomination of Desolation,” freedom and freedom of speech, all find themselves applicable in this past Republican primary. Freedom of speech is at the core of our republic! Some say, “Politics is a blood sport” and outbursts have surrounded the word “bloodbath.” ...

Young athletes can learn from Masters champ Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler recently won the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for the second time. He dominated the historic tournament that included a field of the best golfers in the world — the Masters is one of the few remaining tournaments that is filled with ...