DEAR EDITOR: As a Youngstown native, I wanted to care for the community that raised me. When the opportunity to serve the Mahoning Valley as an internal medicine physician presented itself in 2005, I answered the call. For the last 20 years, I have lived in the Mahoning Valley as a physician, ...
How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress? Quite well, thank you. I went to a public school where the ...
DEAR EDITOR: In the early ’70s, I was aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer when it passed through the Bab el Mandeb Strait into the Red Sea at general quarters. We sailed at GQ because Iranian revolutionaries had taken to assaulting ships passing through the narrow strait using speed boats, ...
DEAR EDITOR: May I please use this forum to address our representatives? Dear Representatives to the Congress of the United States of America: Americans are suffering because of your gross neglect of duty. We voted you in office and gave you the power to address our concerns. WE are your ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled. The great 19th-century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war — and a traditional land power, no less — to dominate global ...
ORCHID: To West Branch Local Schools fifth-grade teacher Abbie Millard for deservedly receiving the first Mahoning Valley Educator of the Year Award at the inaugural teachers recognition event last week at the Eastwood Event Centre in Niles. The event was organized by Josh MacMillan, a Hubbard ...