Boardman Township voters have four choices for two available trustee seats in Tuesday’s general election. Incumbents Tom Costello and Steve Yacovone are seeking reelection, while challengers Matt Gambrel and Cody McCormick have positioned themselves as potential agents of change. Costello, ...

“I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City,” mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declared through rehearsed tears and a well-oiled frog-in-his-throat. “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after Sept. 11 because she did not feel ...

“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay ...

ORCHID: To Youngstown City Schools Superintendent Jeremy Batchelor, other administrators and teachers for their collective efforts to elevate the school system’s academic standing. In his recent annual State of the Schools address, Batchelor noted many significant improvements in the ...

Over the past decade, a growing network of organizations in the world, the nation, the state and the region have transformed the month of November into a hair-raising experience for a noble cause. Specifically, groups like Man Up Mahoning Valley use the 11th month of the year to urge men of ...

In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn’t take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, ...