DEAR EDITOR: I have been very troubled by what appears to be a recent influx of premature pumpkin carving in Columbiana and Mahoning counties. I define pumpkin carving as premature when the carved pumpkins are almost certainly carved on a date before Halloween, which would result in them ...
Zohran Mamdani’s alleged zinger in last week’s New York mayoral debate was a claim that he had “integrity” and his chief opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not. The people know Cuomo’s glories and missteps. But many have been TikTok-ed out of recognizing Mamdani’s two-faced ...
EAR EDITOR: I was surprised to see that The Vindicator gave an Orchid to the Poland Township Trustees for reversing their decision to permit construction of a cell tower on the township administration building property six months after it was approved. As pointed out in the Oct. 10 article in ...
The first week of October was Mental Illness Awareness Week, a designation by Congress since 1990 in recognition of the ongoing work of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To help bring more understanding of the seriousness of emotional challenges that many people face, the American ...
ORCHID: To Megan Malara, Ph.D., for her recent appointment as director of the Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace and Defense in downtown Youngstown. The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining recently made the appointment, and it’s clearly spot-on. Malara brings a ...
The Marine Corps — under the watchful eyes of JD Vance and Pete Hegseth — staged a demonstration last Saturday in southern California. It wasn't a No Kings demonstration, though. It was more like a Yes Kings demonstration. Some of the Marine Corps' shells that were fired by M777 ...