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Opinion

Not all who move to red states favor Trump

DEAR EDITOR: Just a thought for Star Parker in her Feb. 5 Vindicator article: Americans vote with their feet. They are moving under the protection of red states. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Just moving to a red state doesn’t mean they condone Trump’s war on ...

In a sick way, Trump deserves our thanks

DEAR EDITOR: Thank you, Mr. Trump. As a once really nonpolitical person, you have shown me that we all must be more vigilant and truly wake up when choosing candidates for public office, local, state, and especially the presidency of our nation. Thank you for showing me the symptoms of a ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Mahoning County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti for his perseverance in successfully pursuing a network of funding sources to begin a massive $6.2 million repaving and improvement project for the rapidly developing Mahoning Avenue corridor in North Jackson. The project, for which Ginnetti ...

Slouching toward Fort Sumter?

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be ...

Conflict follows when dignity falls away

DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump’s long record of insults, slurs and demeaning rhetoric shows a consistent failure to recognize the dignity of others. That attitude doesn’t stay confined to speeches. It filters into the institutions he shapes. ICE is now confronting communities it should be ...

Sound off!

I almost laughed out loud at the cartoon depicting the Clintons as being “above the law.” Such irony, considering the POTUS ignores laws, civil rights, the Constitution, felony convictions and court orders and has a masked, unidentified, personal police force to cull and terrorize ...