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Stop buying votes, everybody!

It would be hard to find a more insulting offer than to exchange money for your vote. That’s exactly what President Donald Trump did in announcing that if voters keep Republicans in power come the midterms, he’ll send every adult citizen a $5,000 check. Now, one would not put money on that promise. Even if Republicans do retain control of both the House and the Senate, the promise will surely be thrown in the same manila folder as the vow to release the Epstein files, all of them. Of course, Trump would not be paying us five grand — the federal government would. That would ...

Letters to the Editor

A grocery store is more important than a hotel DEAR EDITOR: I find it quite interesting that The Vindicator offered an orchid to the Youngstown Council representatives who voted down the proposed bailout of the Cornersburg Sparkle market. While I find myself torn about the subject and do agree with the statement that this would have set a dangerous precedent, it makes me reflect on a similar situation here in Youngstown. It raises questions that nobody seems to want to answer. Where was the outrage when the city bailed out that failing hotel downtown by extending its loan? The ...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen and me

History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted but a way of life to be embraced. For me, one of those extraordinary figures is Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Fulton Sheen possessed a rare gift: He could bring the richness, beauty and intellectual depth of traditional Catholicism into the homes of ordinary Americans. Through his Emmy Award-winning, half-hour weekly ...

If TMH will not reopen, start with houses next door

Warren has spent two years trying to keep a hospital on East Market Street. That effort was right. A city this size should not have to send its emergencies, its births, and its paychecks somewhere else. It is time to say out loud what a lot of people already know. The building we still call Trumbull Memorial Hospital is not, at this moment, on a path back to being a hospital. The TMH campus has passed through Forum Health, Steward Health Care, and Insight. Steward’s bankruptcy closed the doors. Insight took over, closed, briefly reopened an emergency room, then surrendered its Ohio ...

Will increasing pay for rail safety inspectors help?

Rail safety reform is not a matter of partisan politics — or it shouldn’t be, anyway. But since February 2023, when a derailment in East Palestine ignited renewed calls for reform, politicians in Washington, D.C., have sat on their hands while their friends in the railroad industry made promises and assurances that weren’t worth the paper their public relations teams hoped it would be printed on. This week, U.S. Sens. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., are giving it another shot, with a bill that would increase pay for federal railroad inspectors and ...