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SpaceX CEO misses the real 'bloodthirsty warmongers' in Moscow.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Ukraine says its satellite access is finally back to full speed, but the throttling episode of recent weeks has mushroomed into a larger story about the Trump Administration and an indispensable battlefield technology. Elon Musk did himself no favors over the weekend with a credulous social-media outburst about the Russia-Ukraine war. Nobody is stepping up to take credit for slowing down Ukraine’s eyes and ears in the sky. Mr. Musk’s odd explanation is that Ukraine violated the “terms of service” of Starlink, a commercial product, by using it for ...

A solution for the SOBE saga

Guest columnists

The situation with SOBE and its terribly mismanaged asset, the old Youngstown Thermal System, is now at a breaking point, threatening to shut down YTS permanently, thus leaving downtown Youngstown as a cold ghost town. SOBE is now reportedly taking actions to disconnect heat and hot water ...

The unauthorized war

Guest columnists

President Donald Trump says that the Iran war will end "soon," a promise he's been making most of this year. Eventually, he will be right, but it hasn't happened in time for the midterm elections, and his party is bearing the brunt. If Republicans get thumped, all the polling suggests that prices will be one of the main reasons, with the Iran war's contribution to higher costs looming large. According to a recent New York Times/Siena poll, 65% disapprove of President Trump's handling of the war in Iran, and almost 75% disapprove of his handling of gas prices, two closely intertwined ...

Isn't this an attack on democracy?

Guest columnists

Isn't this an attack on democracy? In August, Mary Peltola told Alaskans, "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!" Her campaign might have wanted to check its own text messages before she said it. According to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday, top Peltola aides in the summer of 2025 told a staffer to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible. Dan S. Sullivan is Alaska's Republican senator, and a second Dan Sullivan on the state's four-candidate general election ballot could confuse enough voters to cost him the seat. ...

Sports officials must be protected

Editorials

Refereeing isn’t supposed to be dangerous. But those who (often volunteer to) do so are increasingly facing dangers to their mental health and wellbeing AND their physical health while they are trying to do their jobs for our kids. During a Steubenville-New Philadelphia boys soccer game this week, an official was injured so badly he had to be hospitalized. Video evidence shows a Steubenville player who may have been reacting to a red card being given to a teammate charging at the official, knocking him to the ground. According to published reports, the referee suffered a collapsed ...

The grumpy, Trumpy turkey on the table

Guest columnists

Pick a Thanksgiving table, any Thanksgiving table in America, and it's sure to have a turkey and a grumpy uncle. Sometimes they are one and the same, stuffed with all the trimmings. As the midterms draw near, this November will be an especially heated month, right? We the people are so deeply carved down the center. There's no moderate middle ground. As the presumptive winners of the House, the Democratic family members get the white meat. The Republicans will have to do with dark. The winner of the Senate gets dibs on pumpkin pie. Oh, what a feast it will be for starved ...