DEAR EDITOR: I am writing to express my feelings about the deterioration of the lower West Side. Businesses are closing, one after the other. Now, Rite Aid at Mahoning and Schenley avenues is closing. What is going to be left? I was born and raised on the West Side and unfortunately ...

DEAR EDITOR: Ohio Department of Natural Resources Oil and Gas Land Management Commission signed away Ohio’s state parks Nov. 15, approving fracking leases on Salt Fork State Park, Zepernick Wildlife Area and Valley Run Wildlife Area. Ohio citizens submitted over 5,000 comments alerting ...

DEAR EDITOR: Lately there’s been rumblings of a resurgence in jobs and opportunity in the Valley. It started a few years ago with HomeGoods breaking ground on its largest distribution center to date just across the street from the closed General Motors plant. HomeGoods valiantly ...

DEAR EDITOR: Youngstown State’s Board of Trustees’ vote to hire Congressman Bill Johnson as university president over candidates with educational backgrounds is a travesty. Holding faculty in the dark over candidates, then hiring someone starkly anti-education and intellectual diversity ...

DEAR EDITOR: Appalling! An institution of higher learning that selects a partisan hack and election denier is appalling! Universities are the foundations of critical thinking, advanced study, learning and promotion of academic excellence. The only reason U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson seems to ...

DEAR EDITOR: The Vindicator reported that the YSU trustees, by a vote of 8-1, offered the presidency of Youngstown State University to Bill Johnson, the sitting six-term congressman from Marietta. This is stunning news. Johnson, whose career has spanned over 20 years in the Air Force, ...