Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which didn’t make a lot of sense to me, and, it turns out, didn’t really work very ...

ORCHID: To Community Legal Aid for coming to the assistance of rightfully frustrated tenants of Warren’s Stonegate Apartments. The complex has been plagued by a litany of problems, including shoddy maintenance, code violations and a recent fire that displaced several residents. At a community ...

Youngstown City Council members are to be commended for taking action in light of astronomically excessive 2024 overtime in the city’s police department that was first reported in this newspaper last month. Specifically they are calling on state Auditor Keith Faber’s office to conduct a ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people who can demonstrate how slavery and Jim Crow laws have negatively affected their ...

National Public Radio recently posted a questionnaire on its website asking readers to reflect on their experiences when the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down in 2020. For those who were able to quickly resume their usual routines after the World Health Organization announced an end to the ...

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world ...