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Guest columnists

Fire the Muskrat

Please call your members of Congress today and tell them Elon Musk must be fired. Immediately. (The U.S. Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. Tell the operator where you’re from and the operator will connect you to your representatives and senators.) This past weekend, Musk, the richest ...

Where was ‘60 Minutes’ crew when Rust Belt jobs were cut?

CAMPBELL — Sept. 19 marked 47 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River for the early shift. Within an hour of the workers’ shift, ...

Explaining the health care free speech movement

Why should you join America’s health care free speech movement? You may have already enlisted if you’ve had the gnawing feeling that the well-known patterns of health care debate conceal some as yet unrevealed primal reality that block important issues from being joined. You’d be right. ...

Politics is upstream of culture, too

Politics, my mentor Andrew Breitbart famously stated, is downstream of culture. By that, Andrew meant that culture shapes and embodies our values as a society; we then vote based on those values. From church to music, from movies to television, we are affected by the things we see and hear — ...

Greed, profit motive make our world a much better place

Politicians bash businesses. “Stop the greed!” shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders. Many Republicans are equally ignorant. When some Florida businesses raised prices in response to sudden demand during a crisis, Attorney General Pam Bondi called that “sickening ... disgusting ... ...

Strategies dedicated to a vibrant Valley economy

Ohio, including the Mahoning Valley and surrounding area, has experienced generational economic growth since 2020. Strong state and local leadership combined with cohesive cooperation with private sector leaders has paved the way for this expansion. Now it’s time to take our prosperity to ...