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Easter orchids

Editorials

ORCHID: To the estate of the late Thomas R. Pigott of Southington for recently donating a vast and historically significant archaeological collection decades in the making that permanently preserves the prehistory of the Mahoning Valley. Pigott spent considerable time acquiring and investigating his finds. It contains irreplaceable original research, documented artifacts, field notes and photographic records from some of the few archaeological excavations ever conducted in Trumbull County. As such, its value to the historical society’s growing collections can never be overstated. And ...

Lessons from the Vietnam War for Iran

Editorials

We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had the draft, so more Americans were engaged in fighting and watching their progress, or lack thereof. Today, while recruiting numbers have increased in our all-volunteer military, the taste for war among the public has declined. One of President Trump’s positions that attracted voters was his promise to end wars, not start new ones. Granted, any candidate running for president can ...

What Trump is turning the US economy into

Editorials

When he ran for president again in 2024, Donald Trump made three promises to the American public: First, he said he’d “secure” the Southern border. Most Americans now believe he’s gone too far in this. Second, he’d avoid foreign wars. He said: “We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even.” Umm. How well has this promise turned out? His third promise was to bring prices down and create more jobs. He said: ...

Strive to behave as ‘Easter People’ throughout year

Editorials

For Christians, Sunday is the holiest day of the year — Easter. It is a day of celebration, commemorating the resurrection of the Son. For millennia, this season also has been a time to celebrate the return of the sun, when our minds are on a kind of rebirth and living again in the light. Easter brings us joy, yes. It also teaches us about sacrifice and love; and gives us a brightly colored reminder that we are supposed to love one another, too. For many, it is a day of dressing up, perhaps attending church, having a meal with family and then giving in to modern traditions ...

‘Naked Niki,’ Trump endorsement dominate GOP US House primary

David Skolnick

There’s more to U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce than his endorsement by President Donald Trump and more to his Republican primary challenger Niki Frenchko than her attention-grabbing photos to draw people to her “OnlyFrenchko” website. With early voting starting Tuesday and the May 5 primary a month away, each campaign has its focus. I will be writing an article shortly detailing the platforms of the two Republicans as well as the three Democrats running in the 14th Congressional District race. But first I wanted to expand on what Joyce and Frenchko are doing. Joyce is running ads that ...

What is ‘Transgender Awareness Day’ actually about?

Editorials

It’s finally springtime, which can only mean one thing. Not Easter, or Passover or Ramadan. No, March 31 was International Transgender Awareness Day, an annual day dedicated to transgender awareness. Taking to social media, the Democratic Party announced that “Trans rights are human rights.” So “This Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the resilience of transgender and nonbinary Americans and celebrate their incredible courage,” they added. “To our trans neighbors on this trans day of visibility: I see you, I cherish you, and I stand with you in the face of the ...