Donald Trump rode the great economy of Barack Obama into office in 2017. He is about to inherit another good situation. The economy is doing so good this time around the FED is pausing interest rate cuts to try to cool down economic spending. During Trump’s first term he mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic response so badly he damaged the great economy he was handed. Let’s hope he doesn’t screw up this second chance.

— Cortland

A headline of Jan. 8, “New county engineer weighs hiring former commissioner,” should have said “Nepotism is alive and well in Warren.”

— Warren

So new engineer David DeCristofaro is hiring former commissioner Mauro Cantalamessa for a $25.00 an hour job in his office. When DeCristofaro was engineer almost 20 years ago, Mauro’s brother Enzo was his lawyer. This sure sounds like “the good old boys” network of favor trading that Niki Frenchko continually talked about.

— Warren

Funny that Warren City Auditor, who owns rental properties, would verbalize issues with raising rental inspection fees. And isn’t the city’s rental inspector, Tony Angelo, also an owner of many rental homes? Maybe landlord city employees should stay out of discussions about rental fees, their self interests are showing!

— Warren

With recruitment at its lowest and police departments all over the country scrambling for quality officers by offering large salaries, what makes Newton Falls think it can afford a police department. With the recent bust of a large amount of fentanyl just across the line in Portage County, Newton Falls is no Mayberry RFD. The Sheriff’s Office has better resources and more of them. Common sense would suggest that they stay with the Sheriff’s Office, but common sense has gone AWOL in the Falls.

— Newton Falls

The former Vienna fiscal officer took a trip. Out of the county and out of the state. Never booked into the Trumbull County Jail but has seven felony counts pending. We guess that if she spends the money that she embezzled in Michigan it doesn’t count. This while the people of Vienna are suffering. Yes, the township residents don’t have regular fire and EMS protection due to her actions. Zero remorse has been shown by her. Rob the gas station, go to jail. Rob the people, go to Michigan.

— Vienna

After a trip to Mar-a-lago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg dropped fact checking on his social media platform. Allowing yet another place to push lies to a U.S. population that is already so dumbed down that it can’t get much worse. In other news, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit to block the release of information from his January 6 case. In summary, our leaders are promoting lying on one hand and using the courts to bury the truth on the other hand.

— Cortland

He did it again! Mr. Biden has forgiven the student loans for another 150,000 borrowers. Unbelievable. Why are there laws in place for borrowers if there is no responsibility to repay those loans? Oh, that’s right. Biden doesn’t pay any attention to those laws. Biden’s loan forgiveness debacle has now cost the taxpayers $183.6 billion. January 20 is just around the corner. That will stop this flood of wasteful spending.

— Warren

How anybody can look at the total devastation from the ongoing fires in California and not be ashamed of Trump, a convicted felon, ridiculing and concocting falsehoods about the enormous loss of lives and homes and wonder why we have sunk so low as to have lost any humanity that may be left not only in politics but in our everyday lives. He reduces our lives to insignificance with his crass talk.

— Liberty

Only a few more days until Mr. Biden is out of office. Prior to his leaving, he should be thanked publicly for so many things – allowing thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants to enter our country, canceling student debt that was legally binding, commuting death sentences of murderous felons, and the list goes on. On Jan. 21, 2025, perhaps he will begin the mental health treatments he so desperately needs.

— Warren

Take heed Vienna residents. We are now in line for whats “good for us.”Our trustees are taking lessons.. Vienna faces similar zoning changes. Howland’s Diverging Diamond is paving the way for “highway commercial”development. Trustees announce that residential adjacent areas will protected by a “buffer.” That whole area was residential and Howland “lost that zoning designation.” Again, Howland property up for development.” Neighborhoods and resident’s costly rights swallowed whole. Vienna’s landlocked bankrupt community is a huge bargaining chip for who’s got the money.

— Vienna