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100% of property tax stays in your community to pay for the services you take for granted. Very little sales tax or income tax is returned to your town. Most of it goes to Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Police, fire, 911 dispatch, senior services, road maintenance, libraries and local health departments all depend on property tax. Townships do not have income taxes and would have no way to make up the loss of revenue. — Hubbard The 9/29 televised investigation of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s big lie was a witch hunt. The GOP hacks mischaracterized, misrepresented, ...

The perfect metaphor at the UN

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The perfect metaphor to characterize the U.N. General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” You can’t make people understand the truth if they choose to ignore it. The problem with the Middle East is that both sides have their own “truth,” which is contradictory because the only alternative to truth is falsehood. Prime Minister Netanyahu, as he has done in previous U.N. appearances, laid out the truth which dozens of delegates didn’t want to hear. “Moral ...

A rebuttal to Juan Williams on Justice Clarence Thomas

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Juan Williams calls Justice Clarence Thomas’ place in history tragic. His argument rests on two sweeping claims: that Thomas is at the heart of a historic decline in public trust in the Supreme Court, and that he has damaged trust in black conservatives as a source of ideas about race. Those are serious accusations. They deserve more than confident assertion. They deserve evidence, careful reasoning and the same respect for individual judgment that Williams should expect for himself. Thomas is one of the most respected, trusted and consistent members of the court. His majority ...

Letters to the Editor

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A grocery store is more important than a hotel DEAR EDITOR: I find it quite interesting that The Vindicator offered an orchid to the Youngstown Council representatives who voted down the proposed bailout of the Cornersburg Sparkle market. While I find myself torn about the subject and do agree with the statement that this would have set a dangerous precedent, it makes me reflect on a similar situation here in Youngstown. It raises questions that nobody seems to want to answer. Where was the outrage when the city bailed out that failing hotel downtown by extending its loan? The ...

If TMH will not reopen, start with houses next door

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Warren has spent two years trying to keep a hospital on East Market Street. That effort was right. A city this size should not have to send its emergencies, its births, and its paychecks somewhere else. It is time to say out loud what a lot of people already know. The building we still call Trumbull Memorial Hospital is not, at this moment, on a path back to being a hospital. The TMH campus has passed through Forum Health, Steward Health Care, and Insight. Steward’s bankruptcy closed the doors. Insight took over, closed, briefly reopened an emergency room, then surrendered its Ohio ...

Stop buying votes, everybody!

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It would be hard to find a more insulting offer than to exchange money for your vote. That’s exactly what President Donald Trump did in announcing that if voters keep Republicans in power come the midterms, he’ll send every adult citizen a $5,000 check. Now, one would not put money on that promise. Even if Republicans do retain control of both the House and the Senate, the promise will surely be thrown in the same manila folder as the vow to release the Epstein files, all of them. Of course, Trump would not be paying us five grand — the federal government would. That would ...