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Americans must choose between Big Money or The People

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America makes its choice on Nov. 3. It’s not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record 45%t of American voters now call themselves “independent” and don’t align with either party. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right,” as those terms have been used for the last half-century — representing preferences by the left for more and bigger social safety nets and by the right for lower taxes. The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top — in the billionaire class, tech bros, Wall Street, and the ...

Trump’s war on EVs backfires

Editorials

Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December. There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an earlier determination to enter the electric era with the rest of the world. And for their customers to be left to scrounge when energy prices revived demand. But the biggest reason is Donald Trump, and here’s an educated guess why he had it in for ...

Orchids & onions

Editorials

ORCHID: To the Anthony J. Fox Family Foundation for its generous and civic-minded donation toward construction of an expansive children’s garden in Mill Creek MetroParks’ Fellows Riverside Gardens. Park officials recently cut the ribbon on the exciting new fun- and education-filled space that will enable Mahoning Valley children to play while learning about nature and horticulture. Though the foundation funded the bulk of the $3 million project, other donors are to be commended as well for completing the project without one red cent of taxpayer funds. ONION: To the growing ranks of ...

Sound off!

Editorials

Went downtown to the Trump rally, but got there too late, so I stood on a Front Street sidewalk across from the Covelli Centre, where protesters shouted and chanted incessantly until the president’s motorcade passed. I was impressed with the group’s limited vocabulary, mostly the “F” word. The rally finally gave the protesters an outlet to put their eight or 12 years of formal education on public display. — Hubbard Anyone who believes that Amy Acton closed schools and businesses should know better. Gov. DeWine said it was his decision. What happened in Ohio was happening all ...

Keep Meacham as county auditor

Editorials

Some government jobs are like being an offensive lineman. Those performing well often do not get noticed until or unless a mistake happens. The quarterback gets sacked? The replay might show a missed block. But you rarely see replays of the successful blocks he made. Maybe that’s because they’re expected. A county auditor also likely won’t get noticed unless a county employee doesn’t get paid, or as we saw in neighboring Trumbull County in 2024, someone gets paid who shouldn’t have. That hasn’t been an issue here, where Mahoning County Auditor Ralph Meacham has been as ...

Ramaswamy’s ad with Acton’s estranged mother crosses the line

David Skolnick

During his Oct. 5 endorsement interview with this newspaper, Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy criticized Amy Acton, his Democratic opponent, for how she is conducting her campaign. Ramaswamy said: “I think that she’s the beginning of a new kind of politics of real personalization. She’s running a campaign on identity politics, not in the way that you traditionally may think about, but it’s a different kind of identity politics. Identity politics that – I don’t care to go into this now – actually has skillfully baited the worst instincts about aspects of ...