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Opinion

When will Congress do something?

DEAR EDITOR: Every day, some senator or representative voices “concern, worry, or disappointment” regarding the behavior of a chronic liar, felon, bully and bag of waste, fraud and abuse who uses brute force policies to trample our Constitution with impunity. When will Congress get off its ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To the Kimberly-Clark Corp., the Mahoning Valley’s newest premium employer, for recently announcing its donation of a whopping 15 million Huggies diapers to the National Diaper Bank Network. Member diaper banks serve children and families in 33 U.S. states, including at its Mahoning ...

Reconciliation vs. retaliation

DEAR EDITOR: Physical violence does not just appear out of nowhere. It begins with ideas. It begins with words. It’s a whole lot easier to kill and eat an animal if we call it “livestock” rather than a “pet.” How we talk and think about others directly influences how we treat ...

Nobel Peace Prize headline misleading

DEAR EDITOR: Shame on you for using “Trump gifted Nobel Peace Prize” — many people just read headlines and not the whole story. There is no other way to dishonor the Nobel Peace Prize than to give it away to someone so unqualified to receive it. DONNA NASSER Sharon, Pa.

The wrong narrative

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days ,you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as “bait” to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had been “kidnapped” by ICE. Rep. ...

Sherrod Brown could have done more

DEAR EDITOR: My contribution to the 1-23-2026 article on Sherrod Brown, Page A6 top headline — that I did not entirely read — is that I felt that then-Sen. Brown could have done a little bit more and fought a little bit harder for me when I contacted his office about my difficulties with ...