DEAR EDITOR: The editorial on March 22 called on voters to be informed when they vote in November. Let’s make a deal! The voters are tired of heavily-slanted name calling and worthless political ads, both on television and printed in the news media. We want and desperately need honest and ...

I hope the upcoming solar eclipse experience reminds us that we are living on a rock, a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark, spinning around an ordinary star hanging in a vacuum in the suburbs of a galaxy, one galaxy among billions, and that there is no hint that help will come ...

DEAR EDITOR: I am Miya DeBolt, a Youngstown State University honors college freshman flutist from Cleveland. I came to YSU expecting an uninterrupted education at Dana School of Music. Boasting the top music professors in the country and hearing hype about the university from my high school ...

DEAR EDITOR: Wake up people. It is time everyone — school officials, coaches and all fans — put a stop to the OHSAA. I just learned over the past few days that they have allowed certain seeded teams in basketball to pick their first opponent for the sectionals. What is this all ...

DEAR EDITOR: I am writing to illuminate the issue of smoking / tobacco addiction in our community and to advocate for increased support in “smoking cessation” or quitting. Smoking is a significant public health problem, and it’s important that we take action to help people quit this ...

DEAR EDITOR: “We do not have to sacrifice people to have a prosperous and booming economy.” This recent important statement from Michael Regan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, should have come with the disclaimer “unless, of course, you live in East ...