ORCHID: To the Youngstown State University men’s and women’s cross country teams for going the distance to win 2025 Horizon League championships this fall. The YSU men won their fourth-consecutive league title, becoming just the third program in conference history to achieve that amazing ...

General Motors’ recent announcement of massive layoffs at Ultium Cells in Lordstown hit the Mahoning Valley like a ton of bricks. For some, it rekindled a sense of perverse deja vu, harkening back to the series of GM layoffs that began about 10 years ago and ended in 2019 with the ...

Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make Americans believe that prices are going down ...

Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We need a second American revolution, not with guns or violence, but by a provision in ...

This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as old as the republic and ...

Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals). Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a ...