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Dear public employees: Be afraid

Opinion: It was a verbal shot heard round the state of Ohio: “Please leave the cynicism and political


DE SOUZA: What are voters thinking?

Opinion: We can now add the re-election of a criminally indicted officeholder and the thousands of votes cast for a former congressman with a federal prison record to the annals of political corruption in the Mahoning Valley.

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Why Strickland must win

Opinion: If you haven’t made up your mind, at this late date, for whom to vote in the race for Ohio governor,


Will area deliver for Dems?

Opinion: With the Ohio governor’s race in the “too close to call” category, the predominantly Democratic


Traficant, the bully, gets rolled

Opinion: It was the “kaboom” moment of this election season. Congressman Tim Ryan, former congressman and now


Public opinion polls do matter

Opinion: Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to the Mahoning Valley last week was supposed to have taken place


Y’town must take back streets

Opinion: So long as we keep using words such as “random,” “senseless,” “unfortunate” and even “mistaken