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Editorials

Summer fun just around the corner

State officials celebrated Tourism Day at the Ohio Statehouse earlier this week. As they did so, they highlighted many of the destinations and experiences that make the Buckeye State the heart of it all. Surely, there are Ohio destinations that are known all over the country — maybe even ...

Could President Trump care less about you and me?

WASHINGTON — Camelot, it’s not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald Trump is a pretender president who doesn’t even pretend to do right by the people. In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and museums, feels like a crime scene, with his fingerprints everywhere on ...

DeWine made the right call with AG pick

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine revealed two important decisions earlier this week. The most obvious was his choice of Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety Andy Wilson to replace outgoing state Attorney General Dave Yost. But the other was his determination to avoid dismissing the will of ...

Family planning in an age of anxiety

“Why so few babies?” asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about “The Population Bomb,” the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire ...

Celebrity roasts are about as funny as smallpox

There was a time when celebrity roasts were built on the tiniest shred of wit, driven not by a desire to be as offensive as possible but to poke fun at uncomfortable truths packaged in genuine humor and delivered with enough intelligence to make even the roastee laugh. But today’s generation ...

Caps off to the Valley’s Class of 2026

About 3,500 high school seniors in the Mahoning Valley will walk proudly across stages over the next month to collect their reward for years of dutiful attendance, responsible conduct and academic growth. The processionals actually began two weeks ago when members of the first high school ...