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 ...
DEAR EDITOR: In the March 1 Weekend Edition you asked us to promote the installation of government-funded charging stations for EVs. This is nonsense. Only politicians would be dumb enough to propose this. Any truck driver knows better than that. All over our country there are warehouses ...
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 ...
DEAR EDITOR: It was recently reported that State Rep. Heidi Workman (R-Rootstown) told the Portage County Board of Commissioners that she believes “tax is theft.” If that is the case, can I assume Rep. Workman is refusing to accept her salary and state government-provided benefits? After ...
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 ...
DEAR EDITOR: I was at the Trumbull County Commissioners meeting today and I listened to others before I spoke. The Leavittsburg dam needs to go. This is the only dam that is being argued over with a pending lawsuit, a waste of taxpayer money. Everything that I heard from those who don’t ...