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Opinion

Trump shifts his own vibe

The vibe around President Trump’s second term has shifted, and it’s all his doing. The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protesters weren’t in the streets, and federal investigators weren’t after him. The GOP ...

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The president of our country is deporting individuals he doesn’t think will vote for him, lining the Supreme Court with individuals who willingly sold their souls to the devil, talking about a third term, and now he’s hand-picking state governors, including here in Ohio. All designed to ...

US has lost the wars on poverty, drugs

Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student ...

Let’s see what Brown can do in a third term as Youngstown mayor

Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown is facing a primary challenge as he seeks a third four-year term. Fellow Democrat Samantha Turner, a two-term member of Youngstown City Council, said she is running in the hopes of taking the city in a new direction. Brown and Turner each participated ...

Railroad fails to live up to its promises

Out of sight, out of mind. For all its talk about “making it right” in the wake of Ohio’s worst railroad disaster in a decade, Norfolk Southern seems intent on putting East Palestine in its rear-view mirror. Not only did the railroad giant try to lay off parts of the $600 million it ...