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Editorials

Orchids and onions

ORCHID: To Lisa Bryant, transportation supervisor for the Boardman Local School District, and the Ohio Safety Council for organizing a training session for the district’s bus drivers on responding to active aggressors on or near their vehicles. In this day and age where guns run rampant and ...

Valley must meet challenge of growth in jobs, population

For many decades now, challenge has been a way of life for residents and communities throughout the Mahoning Valley. Ever since the region’s signature steel industry died nearly five decades ago and 50,000 good-paying steel industry jobs were lost in a heartbeat, struggles have ...

Coach Prime opens up about cancer

The press conference that University of Colorado Boulder football coach Deion Sanders held at the end of July brought to light the serious health issues that he has been dealing with. Sanders, known as Coach Prime, opened up to the public regarding his bladder cancer diagnosis, something that ...

Back to safer schools?

As President Trump prepares to head to Alaska to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop the killing” in Russia and Ukraine, what is being done to stop school shootings in America as millions of children begin returning to their schools this week? In my school days we had two ...

Parents who don’t vaccinate kids guilty of abuse?

In 2008, Madeline “Kara” Neumann, age 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no longer talk while suffering terrible stomach pains. Yet her adults still wouldn’t take her to ...

Washington, D.C., is a disgrace

At its best, Washington, D.C., is a city of timeless grandeur, of iconic monuments and world-historical centers of power. At its worst, it's a harrowing place where a remorseless 14-year-old could steal your car. The confluence of these two Washingtons in the terrible early-morning ...