DEAR EDITOR: In your Jan. 9 edition you ran a story about Dave Thomas filing for reelection in the 65th House district which was hardly news. Fast forward to Feb. 3, and you chose to ignore something that was actually news, the filing of Lorna Westlake, a Democrat, to oppose Thomas in the 65th ...
ORCHID: To Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean O’Brien for denying death row inmate Andre “Kokomo” Williams’ appeal for relief from the death penalty last week. Williams, who many will recall, murdered 65-year-old George Melnick and brutally beat, blinded and attempted to rape ...
DEAR EDITOR: As someone who has been involved with transportation in Trumbull County since around 2008, I still don’t have definitive answers to one persistent question: “Do we need public transportation in Trumbull County or not?” Some elected officials — and many individuals who ...
At first glance, the pledge by Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50% no later than 2029 in the state’s public schools sounds like a pie-in-the-sky pipedream that stands slim to no chance of ever entering the realm of ...
DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump’s long record of insults, slurs and demeaning rhetoric shows a consistent failure to recognize the dignity of others. That attitude doesn’t stay confined to speeches. It filters into the institutions he shapes. ICE is now confronting communities it should be ...
When President Trump claims there has been “voter fraud” in previous elections, what usually comes to my mind is non-U.S. citizens casting ballots. That is against the law. There have been a few such instances, but no credible proof they were enough to change the outcome of an ...