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Mill Creek park board fails the transparency test again

Editorial: After the debacle of the massive Canada geese kill just months ago, you would think that the Mill


Israel’s future must be viewed through lens of demographics

Editorial: In just over two years, Israel will mark 50 years since its 1967 victory on the battlefield, which


Brazilians have no credibility when it comes to Hoerig case

Editorial: It has been seven-plus years that the accused killer of U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Karl Hoerig of


Millions of jobs lost due to trade imbalance with China

Editorial: Over the years, hundreds of news stories have chronicled the imbalance of trade between China and


Mahoning County’s budget had better not sprout raises

Editorial: 2“They’re not windfalls at all. Departments wish they were, but they’re not.” — Audrey Tillis,


Smackdown on heroin abuse gathers momentum in Valley

Editorial: Though it’s too early to declare victory in the war on heroin abuse raging across Ohio and the


Horrific torture report findings compromise core values of US

Editorial: There is no question that these are dangerous times. The United States and, for that matter, the


Trumbull mergers hold promise

Editorial: News out of Trumbull County last week on the potential merger of two distinct sets of taxpayer-


Mahoning Valley needs Kasich to make pitch for private prison

Editorial: The clock is ticking on the future of the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Youngstown’s East


Unlikely allies Obama, Kasich mutually push for police reform

Editorial: On most contentious ISSUES OF the day, Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican Ohio Gov.


Mayor must seek independent probe of behavior of city police

Editorial: If the growing controversy swirl- ing around a recent police traffic stop in Youngstown has a


Liberty school board members reclaim control of the district

Editorial: It seemed anticlimactic. No confetti, no balloons floating down from the ceiling, no high school


Keep Ohio’s Online checkbook open to all for decades to come

Editorial: Quick! Which Ohio government department spent the most tax dollars in fiscal year 2014 to meet its


Al-Qaida militants’ killing of hostages demands retaliation

Editorial: Neither Luke Somers, a British- born American freelance photojournalist, nor Pierre Korkie, a South


Legislators stall out in dealing with inequities in Ohio schools

Editorial: Seventeen years after the Ohio Supreme Court, in its landmark DeRolph v. State ruling, proclaimed