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Opinion

Mahoning County leaders must act now

DEAR EDITOR: An open letter to the Mahoning County Commissioners: I just now watched the video of your Feb. 12, 2026 meeting. Janet Cobb and Chris Harris spoke eloquently about a problem that is a very relevant subject because the Mahoning County jail has received millions of dollars from ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Boardman Glenwood Junior High School students, Principal Laura McCreery and the PTA for their exceedingly successful show of support for seventh grader Levi Kulikowsky. Levi has been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that requires intensive treatments that will keep him out of ...

Why so much faith in politics?

It’s only February and other than the almost nonstop coverage of the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping story, especially cable networks are obsessed with the November election, though it is more than eight months away. So much can — and likely will — change before then. Why all the ...

Conflicting messages about Poland Library

DEAR EDITOR: Something is amiss! In the weekend edition of The Vindicator, Feb. 14-15, a Poland Board of Education member favored the former Poland Union school be torn down to make way for condominiums, saying that wealthy Polandites would gladly buy into the idea because of the condos being ...

Trump stops race to save the creation

May we talk about spiritual matters? “In the beginning,” the Bible opens, “God created the heavens and the earth.” Several lines down, God says, let humankind “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of ...

A short note to Kristi Noem

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google (owner of YouTube), Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what ...