Throughout my life, “March Madness” has been a popular term. Since I was young, this time of year would bring several different things. When I was younger, my friends and I would plan how we were going to play hookey and watch the first rounds of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. I ...
DEAR EDITOR: I had never seen a total solar eclipse until one crossed through my hometown in 2017. Even when thousands of people started flocking to our rural patch of prairie from all over the world, I just knew it was overhyped. It wasn’t. I went from not being sure I would cross the ...
I’ve been the president of Youngstown State for nearly two months now, and despite some of the negative publicity at the beginning, we’ve gotten off to a running start. In fact, great things are happening here at the university. In the job I left — in the world of American politics ...
DEAR EDITOR: I am Miya DeBolt, a Youngstown State University honors college freshman flutist from Cleveland. I came to YSU expecting an uninterrupted education at Dana School of Music. Boasting the top music professors in the country and hearing hype about the university from my high school ...
The law of gravity, as any schoolchild knows, asserts that what goes up must come down. But for the future of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, it’s time to defy that law to ensure what has come down must go up. Specifically, we’re talking about two keys to unlock growth and ...
DEAR EDITOR: “We do not have to sacrifice people to have a prosperous and booming economy.” This recent important statement from Michael Regan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, should have come with the disclaimer “unless, of course, you live in East ...