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Opinion

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To all the organizers — especially lead sponsor Covelli Enterprises — along with the many donors, volunteers and, of course, the 8,000 runners, walkers and crawlers in this year’s Panerathon fundraiser last Sunday in downtown Youngstown to build awareness of and treat breast ...

Is there a silver lining to these darkening clouds?

As a child, I was bullied and harassed for being short. I remember feeling powerless and vulnerable. I also recall my shame. I directed much of my anger at myself. A large portion of America has felt bullied and harassed for decades. They’ve worked their butts off but haven’t gotten ...

We must cherish and protect Mill Creek Park

DEAR EDITOR: Mill Creek Park is a treasure that Volney Rodgers gave to Mahoning County residents. It is a treasure so exquisite that we will never be able to replace it. It is a jewel that I enjoyed, you are enjoying, our grandparents enjoyed. It was like walking into heaven, with the ...

Sound off!

I have been trying to reach Gov. Mike DeWine’s office to express my opinion on critical issues. No matter the time of day or night, calls are routed to a voicemail system with a full mailbox. Purposely denying a voice to constituents is an outrage. Is it that he doesn’t care because he ...

Immigrant children should not be sent away and hurt

DEAR EDITOR: It grieves me deeply that we have become a country where human lives, those of the immigrants in our country, are so expendable and treated like dirt, placed in horrific, unimaginable and dreadful conditions, basically steel cages, like those for animals that this administration ...

Trump takes a stand on crime

Democrats have lost another issue. They had hoped to tie President Trump to “ungentlemanly behavior” at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s “Love Island,” but no less a character witness than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and young women, has told Justice Department ...