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Opinion

GOP fails to foil Frenchko

Niki Frenchko isn’t the type to be quiet when she feels she’s been wronged. So it was almost as if those who wanted her to resign as auxiliary chairwoman of the Trumbull County Republican Party didn’t understand her at all. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone paying ...

Big Green gets richer thanks to its bald-faced lies

Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations. $8 billion! “The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry,” says physicist Mark Mills in my new ...

Sexual predators deserve harshest punishment possible

Care for a sobering dose of reality? One is available, free of charge, no matter where you happen to live in the Mahoning Valley. A bit of caution — you’re not going to like what you find. It’s called the Ohio Sexual Offender Search, a database available courtesy of the state of Ohio at ...

It’s time for new immigration law

Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans. The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay ...

Youngstown is right to enforce curfew strictly

For the better part of three decades, a series of television commercials directed at American parents went like this: “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” These messages, primarily directed at parents in major cities, ran from the late 1960s through the late 1990s. To ...

Trump’s 6-month report card is in

We have a madman in the house, the White House. By that I mean Donald Trump is a bit insane, drunk with power and revenge, and full of fury, at the one-eighth mark of his presidency. Time to grapple with the grave reality that the president captured the Constitution’s restraints, Congress ...