DEAR EDITOR: In September 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland under the pretense of national interest and historical claim. It was framed as a defensive act, a necessary move to protect Germany’s future. The world soon recognized it for what it was: a blatant act of aggression that triggered ...
ORCHID: To Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries for organizing a Thrift Trail that links about a dozen nonprofit community service organizations in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties that offer merchandise and services. Participating stores and consignment shops include the St. Vincent ...
Last Monday we honored the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Trump has removed MLK Jr.’s birthday from the National Park Service’s fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day. I write this more in sorrow than in anger. All told, I feel profound sorrow ...
In a scene in Robert Bolt's famous play "A Man for All Seasons," about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he'd cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were ...
Muccio editorial cartoon for Jan. 24-25
In 2015, the Supreme Court overlooked its prior decision and by a 5-4 vote declared the 14th Amendment requires every state to grant same-sex marriages identical recognition to those of opposite sex couples. At the time I asked if the Court believed two people of the same sex could marry each ...
