Students in the Youngstown City School District lost out on the beginning of their school year in August and spent the first month or so of it at home learning virtually as the district and the teachers’ union attempted to hammer out a new contract. That won’t happen again in 2024-25, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.” ...