DEAR EDITOR: When Congress fails to fund the government (your government, the one you pay plentiful taxes to keep running) it’s not just gridlock. It’s a shameful collapse of responsibility. Federal employees across the country have been sent home without pay or ordered to keep working for ...

DEAR EDITOR: It is truly sad that Congress and our presidents are more concerned about passing a budget without reducing our national debt. Each American’s share of our $37 trillion dollar debt is over $110,000. We owe $2.6 billion each day in interest alone and much of the debt we owe is to ...

DEAR EDITOR: Judge Andrew Napolitano’s weekly (“weakly”) argued opinion in The Vindicator’s Sept. 27-28 edition again presented an articulation of erroneous procedural facts and substantive mischaracterization of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a recent Immigration case. He ...

DEAR EDITOR: I attended the 51st annual Peace Race on Sunday morning. I was not a runner, but rather a spectator supporting friends. I was shocked to see that none of the restaurants opened early. There were a lot of people, including myself, walking from restaurant to restaurant to see if ...

DEAR EDITOR: Now that enough MAGAites in red states are learning the cost of Trump’s Big Beautiful tax bill, they realize they have stepped in a Magnificent Meadow Muffin so malodorous as to shutter Congress with disgust. Ditto, the “clean” CR. Playing their double-down tactic for bad ...

DEAR EDITOR: The Valley lost another true leader of the community this past week with the passing of Sister Ann McManamon, the founder of the Youngstown Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House. Sister Ann opened the house in 2009 to serve those in need of food, showers, or simply a place to sit and ...