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Challenges remain in fighting all types of heart disease

Editorials

February has long gained fame as a month to celebrate the heart in two completely different spheres. Of course, there’s the metaphoric heart captured on Valentine’s cards designed to conjure up feelings of happiness, romance and love. Contrast that with the very serious — sometimes deadly serious — business of the American Heart Association in drawing much-needed awareness to the human heart and the diseases that so often attack that life-giving organ in our region, state, nation and world. Yes, cardiovascular disease rises as the most common and most destructive killer ...

Orchids & onions

Editorials

ORCHID: To Holly and Michael Guerrero for their 34th wedding anniversary this month and for their highly creative and definitively newsy methods of falling in love and furthering their romance. You see, Holly, ever so slyly, slipped her phone number into an edition of The Tribune Chronicle delivered to Michael’s family home in the mid-1980s. Michael took the bait, called her and romance blossomed, punctuated by his own newspaper-oriented proposal about eight years later. He took out a quarter-page ad in The Tribune, asking his beloved “Sport” for her hand in marriage and was on his ...

Warren should keep Cooke as dog warden

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: I attended the Warren City Council meeting on Feb. 10. The issue of the dog warden came up in the caucus meeting and the council meeting regarding the contract of the dog warden, Jason Cooke. The first lady who spoke said that the city needs to keep Jason on as dog warden and suggested that they hire a deputy warden, which is what I thought. Then a second woman spoke against Jason for having more animals than the shelter can hold, to which someone spoke out and said, “You should take them home then.” She also said that she didn’t like that Jason was taking dogs ...

Sizing up Mahoning Valley’s court of appeals elections

David Skolnick

Tired of losing courts of appeals and Ohio Supreme Court races, Republicans changed the rules starting with the 2022 election — and have largely benefited. The Republican-controlled state Legislature passed a law in 2021, which took effect with the 2022 election, requiring party affiliation on the ballot for those running for seats on courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. Before that, candidates ran in party primaries and then didn’t have party affiliation in the general election. During the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democrats won three of four Supreme Court races and continued ...

Make sure you prepare to vote in May primary

Editorials

If you’re beginning to feel as though the stakes in this year’s elections are unusually high, you are not alone. Even a cursory glance at newspaper opinion pages or social media feeds will tell you there are strong feelings on many important issues — and plenty of people believe they must weigh in on the candidates who might address those issues. Here’s the problem. When it really counts — Election Day — those opinion pieces or social media posts will not move the needle. Your vote will; and primary elections are closer than you might think. Ohio’s Secretary of ...

The poet and the president

Editorials

In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Taking the oath of office in March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was a newcomer to the nation’s capital. Compared to the flash-and-dash style of winning Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was not a military man. Lee, educated at West Point, was a career Union Army officer who chose to side with his state, Virginia, in battle rather than his riven country. For that he’s a traitor, not a noble Southern gentleman, as he’s ...