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Opinion

Luckier than we know to have Rick Muccio

DEAR EDITOR: After getting a laugh out of Rick Muccio’s great “snow blower” cartoon Monday, I have to take a few minutes to make a long-overdue observation: The readers of The Vindicator and Tribune Chronicle are beyond lucky to have a local cartoonist. Even one who is part-time, but ...

Melania: The movie, the bribe, the shame

I haven’t seen it. I hope you don’t, either. This, from one of the kinder reviews: “Across some 104 minutes, the first lady delivers these blatantly scripted and meaningless narrations with all the conviction of someone who just woke up from a two-hour nap and can’t remember what ...

GOP changes its tune on guns, profanity

DEAR EDITOR: So Republicans are actually saying not to carry guns after refusing common-sense gun control for years? They also blame protesters in Minnesota because they confront law enforcement personnel, use violence and profanities and hinder proceedings? Sounds like what I saw at the ...

Tax the dog (walker)

At first it seemed like something from the satirical website Babylon Bee. The new governor of Virginia, the “moderate” Democrat Abigail Spanberger, has proposed a tax hike on services such as dog walking and grooming. Additional proposed tax hikes include levies on guns and ammunition, ...

Sound off!

Dear Mr. Trump, Wouldn’t it be better to go back to the original name of the Kennedy Center? Maybe then all the artists would be glad to perform. Then you wouldn’t have to shut down the center and spend all that money on gold decorations. They will just be torn down after you leave. — ...

Give Ohio townships viable opportunities to evolve as cities

In coming weeks and months, leaders of the 15 townships with 5,000 people or more in Mahoning and Trumbull counties likely will keep their eyeballs squarely peeled on the evolution of state House Bill 592. That’s because that legislation, sponsored by state Rep. David Thomas, R-Jefferson, ...