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The U.S. Conference of Mayors has announced a $150,000 grant is being awarded to help a group dedicated to revitalizing Youngstown.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wells Fargo today announced that Mayors Robert Garcia of Long Beach, Calif.; Nan Whaley of Dayton, Ohio; and Jamael Tito Brown of Youngstown, Ohio, received top honors on behalf of nonprofits in their cities with the 2018 CommunityWINS® Grant Program funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation.

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 If you live in Youngstown and have projects around the house but no tools, there's something new for you.

We are used to govern- ment, especially at the local level, acting in mysterious ways. But the decision by Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown to launch a new grass-cutting program that isn’t delivering as much as the one that was in place from 2015 to 2017 is a real head-scratcher.