The reaction was swift, strong and divided. I’m speaking of the community’s reaction to Youngstown State University Board of Trustees’ presidential hiring decision, but ironically that statement also could apply to the hiring process itself. Since the board announced its decision to ...
Citizens of Orangeville were having troubles, the Nov. 14, 1940, Warren Tribune Chronicle front page stated. It was because of two Thanksgiving Days that year. Although officially a Trumbull County town, the little village, population 500, lay partly in Ohio and partly in Pennsylvania, ...
I’m not a meteorologist, but I do have a smart phone, and it is indicating a brisk, but sunny, Thanksgiving Day. As I write this, it’s more than a week away, but I’m hopeful, for the sake of the many holiday travelers set to take to the roads this week, that the forecast doesn’t ...
There’s just something about the yellowed, brittle pages of an old newspaper that makes me feel nostalgic. Unless I’m sitting on my living room couch on a Sunday afternoon, or on a stool at my kitchen counter early in the morning, these days I seem to be spending precious fewer minutes reading the printed newspaper. When I’m at work, it’s become much more convenient to read the daily publication via the “all-access e-edition” on my computer screen. Yes, I still subscribe to the print editions of both the Tribune Chronicle and The Vindicator at home, and each morning ...
For centuries, newspapers have played a significant role in our nation’s election process. We understand our importance in disbursing local, state and national election information, and we always take that responsibility seriously. During the last several weeks, we have been publishing a series of stories and boxes outlining information about incumbents and challengers, as well as about local levies and two big statewide issues that voters will face Tuesday (or that early voters already have faced). If you’re a regular reader to this column, you know I wrote about our coverage of ...
Marching through election season, especially in recent years, has been hard. It brings increasingly ugly candidate debates and divisiveness among political parties, along with voters. Advertisements embellish candidates’ accomplishments, or worse, tear down and sometimes (often) lie about ...
