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Opinion

Corporate welfare for hospitals raising costs of health care

Editorials

Hospitals are not as unpopular as other health care sectors, such as drug manufacturers and insurance companies. But like other businesses, they are prone to rent-seeking and fiercely defensive of special breaks. Case in point: The 340B drug discount program. The federal program was created ...

Southern Poverty indictment smacks of a political ploy

Editorials

When it comes to the U.S. Justice Department’s stunning announcement of criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an old saying goes, where you stand depends on where you sit. If you sit with the broad section of Americans who revere the legacy of the Civil Rights ...

Let logic settle Poland library controversy

Editorials

The effort to “save” the Poland Library is well-intentioned and even noble. It is also, at this point, misguided and bordering on unhealthy. The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County has spent the better part of a year — if not longer — studying, documenting, analyzing ...

No confidence: Hegseth sacks all the competents on board

Editorials

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. This comes after Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. Hegseth keeps firing senior leaders, often arguing the fired were “woke,” but the common thread seems to be that they had good ...

What has passed is not always what was best

Editorials

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

Trump is reprehensible is so many ways

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: It is said that Trump is “the greatest geopolitical disaster in history.” In my opinion he is that and more. He is a national disaster and has taken us from status as a world class country to nothing more than a laughingstock to the rest of the world. Our allies have been ...