DEAR EDITOR: To all three Trumbull County Commissioners: It’s time you stop talking and enact the Homestead Exemption for all Trumbull County seniors. Grow a set, and get it done. You raked in millions from the property tax assessments from the re-evaluations from the past year. Quit ...
I recently came across a curious headline: “The Retirement Crisis No One Warns You About: Mattering.” Very few people leaving the workplace have prepared for losing a big part of their identity, according to the Wall Street Journal article. They long to “feel seen” in the next chapter ...
DEAR EDITOR: Election interference by establishment elites is rampant in both political parties. To think that our local elections are immune is delusional. The May Primary races within Mahoning and Columbiana counties such as the 7th District Court of Appeals, the Ohio Secretary of State ...
ORCHID: To the Youngstown Skatepark Association for its grit and determination to build a state-of-the-art skate park in the city. It most recently demonstrated that commitment by hosting a “Pop-Up” portable skate park in the expansive Penguin City Brewing Co. in downtown Youngstown. ...
One accurate barometer of a community’s economic health and vitality can be measured in the scope of assistance sought for essential daily needs among its members. Using that gauge, 2025 clearly remained a year of hardship, poverty and frustration for far too many in the Mahoning Valley as ...
DEAR EDITOR: Do our leaders remember us, “We the People”? Or are they too busy fighting and acting like children? Except for the ones honored and remembered, the State of the Union was a clown show, and our president was the chief clown. Whatever happened to civil discourse and ...