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Opinion | Our Voice | Columns Todd Franko Bertram de Souza David Skolnick Ernie Brown | Letters


Potential in Middle East for a disaster is too great to ignore

Editorial: President Barack Obama repeated over the weekend a past statement that Israel has a right to defend


Whither our sense of outrage?

Editorial: Whither our sense of outrage? The page one story looking back on the car-bombing that killed


Outcome of judicial races turns spotlight on reforms

Editorial: Twenty-five years ago, the voters of Ohio resoundingly defeated a ballot measure that would have


Diamond-rich African nation has made a select few wealthy

Editorial: In many COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, dia- monds are a dictator’s best friend. Not only are the precious


In wake of Warren shoot out, go after the Detroit gangsters

Editorial: Time will tell more of the story behind the motive in the shooting death of Marco Dukes, 32, and


Savings from worker buyouts should be used for demolition

Editorial: It may seem that Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone has a one-track mind on the issue of housing


A story of human failure, not a threat to national security

Editorial: Sometimes an affair is just an affair. By saying just, we don’t mean to minimize the pain that


YSU may soon have to face reality of state funding loss

Editorial: Youngstown State University had better leave the door open to voluntary pay cuts or unpaid furloughs


The last time Congress dallied, the economy paid the price

Editorial: Congress doesn’t have to drive off the fiscal cliff to do the economy serious damage. All it has to


A Veterans Day tribute

Editorial: A Veterans Day tribute The tradition that we observe today has its direct roots in Armistice Day,


Rep. Ryan’s support of Obama puts him in a strong position

Editorial: First the bad news for Democrats in Ohio: Out of the 16-member delegation in the House of


V&M Star’s new plant reaches milestone; good news for area

Editorial: We will never get tired of say- ing it: The Mahoning Valley is benefitting from a $1 billion-plus


Local schools feel the pinch from loss of state funding

Editorial: Cuts in state funding for pub- lic schools and the diversion of funds from public school districts


Ohioans clear that Senate seat is not for sale to highest bidder

Editorial: Republican state Treasurer Josh Mandel, who promised to serve out his four-year term when he was


The election is history, the future lies in working together

Editorial: Democracy is like one of those photo mosaics — a collection of thousands of little pictures arranged