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Opinion

Shameful conspiracy theories of Candace Owens

Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband’s own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination. Here we are, though. Influential voices on the right have ...

Tweak, enact Andy’s Law for prison reforms

By all accounts, bloody violence inside many of Ohio’s public and private prison walls has intensified out of control in recent years. In Youngstown, the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center has logged more than 15 inmate stabbings — including at least one such fatal attack — since the ...

Merry Christmas from the Republicans

DEAR EDITOR: I see where Mike Johnson, President Trump and the Republican party is wishing millions of Americans and their children and families by allowing ACA coverage to disappear. But don’t worry! Their present to the people will be the huge amounts of coverage you’ll be paying if ...

Silencing educational institutions

DEAR EDITOR: So, how do we go about dumbing down America more than it is already? Well, for openers, how about eliminating the Department of Education and truncating appropriate funding for public schools. These are but two ways of compromising learning for our children. Want to know more ...

How Christmas will steal the Trump

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania last week that began with his “wishing each and every one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff” and boasting that now, under his presidency, “everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ ...

‘Kill them all’

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?” — Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the ...