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Opinion

Some factors make seeing way home much more difficult

If you’re a driver of a certain age, there is a good chance you’ve been “blinded by the light” at night, especially in recent years. The phenomenon has nothing to do with Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, which recorded the 1976 hit song of the same name. But over the last 20 years or so, ...

Plant in your own life; we all reap the rewards

There’s a 36-year-old song that talks about the value of hard work. “I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail,” the chorus goes, “Learn how to use my hands, not just my head. I think myself into jail. Now, I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful ...

Survivors deserve full transparency in Epstein case

“The more Epstein documents get released, the more we see how he had so many powerful friends, and that’s ultimately what helped him,” commented U.S. lawyer Lisa Bloom in an interview with the Guardian. As Bloom, who represents 11 of Jeffrey Epstein’s dogged and brave victims, notes: ...

‘Misleading’ headline masks real challenge facing local democracy

The recent opinion piece characterizing the Trumbull County Democratic Party as being in “free fall” may make for a provocative headline, but it misrepresents what is happening in local and state politics, and why potential Democratic candidates and anyone who believes in fair competition ...

Given widespread support, voter ID laws need not be controversial

President Trump says that “Republicans” should “nationalize the election” or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he lost in such places in 2020, and since it is axiomatic that he won everywhere, the ...