Click here to read Rachel Marie Powell's sentencing memorandum Volumes of video recordings and photographs showcase hundreds of people clamoring up exterior walls and through hallowed halls of our nation’s Capitol. They depict intruders’ use of tools like make-shift battering rams or ...
Just last week I finally got around to hanging the autumn wreaths on my doors at home, along with the fabric “ghosts” that my mother gave me years ago, to blow around as the wind whips onto my front porch. The weather has gotten extremely “crisp,” seemingly overnight, and my dad ...
Headlines carried beneath our newspaper’s flag emblazoned in rare pink last week spoke of the “War” against breast cancer, “Pinking out” in Austintown, and “Warriors” who gathered for the large annual luncheon intended to honor local breast cancer survivors. It occurred to me ...
A co-worker recently posted a photo on Facebook depicting the Christmas displays at a local home improvement store. With it, he offered a simple one-word caption. “Really?” Yes, Christmas decor is a bit premature, but what isn’t premature is the arrival of autumn about 10 days ago. With it comes cooler nights, onset of fall foliage and, yes, election season. In my business, this is the time of year when our workload ramps up. Much like disbelief and frustration of Christmas lights in September, election season also comes with seemingly premature presidential debates for a ...
An editorial that appeared on last Sunday’s Opinion page called on local school districts to consider consolidating administrations to help save hundreds of thousands of dollars countywide. The concept of regionalization and consolidation among Mahoning Valley school districts is one that our newspaper has promoted for years. It makes good sense and we continue to stand by it. Unfortunately, some enrollment data that we published last week to help make our argument drew comparisons between some 2019 and 2022 enrollment figures that, frankly, should not have been compared. That’s ...
This month marks four years since the Tribune Chronicle took over publication of The Vindicator after its previous owners announced the operation would cease. At the time, The Vindicator’s former owners said the decision to shutter the Mahoning County-based newspaper came after operating in the red for some 20 years. The loss of the newspaper — the valued fourth estate, so critical to a democracy in which the government is accountable to the people — would have been a horrible blow to our area. Recently, I’ve reflected a lot on that day, Sept. 1, 2019, thinking about ...
