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Opinion

Reject the SAVE Act to save our democracy

DEAR EDITOR: What’s in a word? We all know that words can be used to help us or hurt us. Words can even save us sometimes. The word save is an especially important word. It is loaded. The acronym SAVE which stands for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility is especially loaded. President ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Austintown Township trustees and Police Chief Valorie Delmont for acting quickly and responsibly in response to voters’ approval in November of a new, five-year renewable 2.22-mill tax levy that will generate about $2 million annually for the police department. Last week, three new ...

We can and will prevail

The past two weeks have been hard. U.S. missiles and bombs have caused as of Wednesday at least 1,300 civilian deaths in Iran, including 188 schoolchildren. Seven American service members have perished. A direct line connects this violence with the U.S. government’s violence over the past ...

Kristi Noem rides off into the sunset

At times, you could be forgiven for having thought that Kristi Noem wanted to be a uniformed DHS officer rather than the secretary of the department. Now, the cabinet member most inclined to glamour shots out in the field is going to have to go back to wearing civilian clothes. For all ...

DeWine missed opportunities to address key issues for Ohio

During his final State of the State address this week, Gov. Mike DeWine declined to discuss in detail — and not at all in some cases — the main issues that are important to Ohioans today: property taxes, the electric grid, rising utility costs and the economy. But that came as little ...

Lack of affordable housing still plagues low-income Ohioans

Affordable housing remains a challenge for Ohioans — and that challenge only grows as rent puts a greater strain on an increasing number of households. According to the 2026 Gap Report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, there ...