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A decade’s worth of uplifting columns

Opinion: It didn’t take long in 2000 for this column to become the beacon of all that’s bright and beautiful


Traficant plays us, the press, for fools

Opinion: The Mahoning Valley’s No. 1 Con Man — con as in convict and con as in conniver — must still be


Is there a reason for Valley to worry?

Opinion: The two words in the New York Times and Washington Post stories literally jumped off the pages:


Cronin, Tsagaris share a ‘lender’

Opinion: First, an apology to federal prosecutors in Cleveland who kept mum about the identity of the


Vetting failed in YSU trustee selection

Opinion: Had Atty. Liz Bernard not resigned as a trustee of Youngstown State University, the governor’s


Now, there’s an honest professor

Opinion: A staunch defender of Youngstown State University, reacting to this writer’s criticism of the


Obama should weigh in on V&M

Opinion: “Now, we’ve still got a long way to go. But there is little debate that the decisions we’ve made and