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YSU’s ranking by Forbes should ease budget pangs

Editorial: Youngstown State University President Randy Dunn’s baptism by fire — he has been on the job two


Governor on the right track with food stamp recipients

Editorial: Of the many initiatives Gov. John Kasich has launched since he took office in January 2011, the one


Obama in a stronger position on Syria with diplomatic push

Editorial: President Barack Obama struck the right note in his address to the American people regarding greater


Making the case for reviving speech team in Y’town schools

Editorial: Fifty-three years ago last month, John Fitzgerald Kennedy made an effective case for expanding high


Aqua America’s decision not to buy rail line telling

Editorial: How practical is it to oper- ate the controversy-ridden Youngstown & Southern Railroad? Three major


Try to find resources to hire more police in Youngstown

Editorial: The economic downturn that battered the United States in recent years has left its painful mark on


Castro deserves no sympathy for ending his life behind bars

Editorial: In the end, the monster turned out to be a coward — when faced with the reality of living the rest


Time to rein in unlicensed, uninsured driving in Ohio

Editorial: Police, prosecutors and judges alike target driving without insurance or licenses as the most


State treasurer should seek outside review of vehicle use

Editorial: Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel’s political operatives insist that state and federal campaign finance


Reality gives lie to the politics of free phone service for poor

Editorial: Although Republicans used “Obamaphone” as a political hammer in last year’s presidential election,


Give ex-convicts help they need to re-enter society successfully

Editorial: The case of Symeon Bankston of Youngstown illustrates an often understated dilemma in America’s


Arab countries should lead the attack on Assad’s Syria

Editorial: Arab states, including American ally Saudi Arabia, have come out swinging — albeit verbally —


Let’s paint the Valley orange Thursday to help the hungry

Editorial: Consider for a moment the many wonders of the color orange. It — as well as many other variants of


End the death penalty in Ohio

Editorial: The (Cleveland ) Plain Dealer: Ohio’s depleted stock of death-penalty drugs is yet another reason


Shrinking parks department is new reality in Youngstown

Editorial: With a population of approxi- mately 65,000, and dropping, a stagnant income-tax base, and a