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Editorials

Many NY minutes before mayoral election

Right before New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, political seers declared with enormous confidence that Andrew Cuomo would easily beat Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. They were wrong. Now, about a month before the general election where Cuomo is running as an independent, the same ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Sarah and Eric Senges, owners of Boardman Grocery Outlet on Boardman-Poland Road, for donating 5% of their total sales Sept. 13 to the West Boulevard Elementary School PTA. The donation extends the tradition of giving to the community’s schools by the Senges. They have sponsored ...

Take steps this week toward combating violence among us

Click here for a rundown of Nonviolence Week events locally. At first glance, results from the recently released 2025 FBI Uniform Crime Report that herald a slight decline in violent crime across America in 2024 may elicit optimism that America is finally turning the corner on its epidemic ...

Bibi tells the truth (again)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the U.N. General Assembly was partly performance, but mostly profound. The performance part included a QR code on his lapel, which delegates were invited to zoom in with their camera phones and see atrocities committed by Hamas that are ...

Tech visas a raw deal for US workers

The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” The visa’s fans offer a mirror ...

Free speech and its discontents

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...” — First Amendment to the U.S. ...