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It’s time to update all public school education in Ohio

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“We treat you like a kid until you walk across the stage, and we’re like, ‘see ya.’ ‑— That doesn’t work,” said Canton City Schools Superintendent Jeff Talbert during a roundtable discussion on transforming Ohio high school education. He’s right, but what do we do about it? How do we prepare young people to move into a job market that looks nothing like it did 10 years ago? Not to mention the structure of a public high school education was solidified generations ago. According to a report by WCMH, XQ Institute and Battelle Education gathered education experts and ...

ATHENA Award winner, nominees make Valley proud

Editorials

As of last week, a highly accomplished and well respected executive of Howmet Aerospace in Niles has joined the pantheon of amazing women trailblazers and changemakers worldwide enshrined as an ATHENA Award winner. Gina Govojdean, vice president of sales and supply at Howmet, is in great company with the likes of such other ATHENA goddesses as former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, legendary tennis icon Billie Jean King and NASA astronaut Christina Koch. Govojdean received the Mahoning Valley’s 2026 ATHENA Award ...

Police failed troubled woman in Ky.

Editorials

On March 27, the Louisville Metro Police Department in Louisville, Kentucky, responded to a 911 call requesting help for someone experiencing a mental health emergency. When police arrived, Katelyn Hall had locked herself in the bathroom with the intention of harming herself. At last week’s Bishop’s Table — a weekly community forum — I listened to Katelyn’s mother, Rebecca, recount what happened that night. Rebecca is grieving now because what began as a call for help ended with Katelyn losing her life. LMPD shot and killed Katelyn when she came out of the bathroom holding a ...

Blame Biden for high prices

Editorials

The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets. It’s indisputable that oil and fertilizer supply disruptions in the Middle East are driving up prices here at home. But that’s only part of the inflation story. Consumer prices overall are up nearly 30% since COVID-19 derailed the U.S. economy six years ago. That’s the worst stretch of inflation since the bad old 1970s under Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, when inflation hit double-digit ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Public library board should review costs DEAR EDITOR: I’m finding it difficult to believe you gave an orchid to the Library Board Trustees for its decision to replace the Poland Library building. You stated that this was a fiscally responsible decision. This is in direct opposition to what you reported in your article on the library board meeting. You reported that Ted Downie, a local contractor that has built many local business’ buildings and has an outstanding reputation, pointed out that the estimates for the repair of the existing buildings and constructing a new building ...

Editorials

The British election should serve as a warning to Democrats who let their left fringe run riot with scant criticism. Too many Democratic strategists and friends in the progressive media read the noise coming from the far left as evidence of broader public opinion than warranted, even among Democrats. Then come voting day, turned-off moderates make them lose. Britain’s voters just battered the Labour Party over what many perceived as social disorder amid uncontrolled immigration. Many were incensed by the influx of migrants from Muslim-majority countries, some prone to crime and ...