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Biden sets stage for debate on area’s economic future

Editorial: Vice President Joe Biden is right when he says that the Mahoning Valley has been through “hell,” but


U.S. billionaire chooses to build new life in Singapore

Editorial: For a few short years, Eduardo Saverin was an American success story. The young man came here with


Will new owner of Y&S rail be ‘good neighbor’ for Boardman?

Editorial: As executives of the Canadian company intending to buy the controversial Youngstown & Southern


Ohio legislators ignore the obvious about Internet cafes

Editorial: Recognizing that Ohio was en- tering a new era with the opening of the first of four legal gambling


GOP should not be allowed to undermine constitution

Editorial: Only the most na Øve or the most partisan Ohioans will buy the self-serving claptrap from Republican


Ohio is derelict in failing to regulate wild animals

Editorial: The initial reaction last October to the carnage that resulted when Terry Thompson released 50 wild


Cameras are a necessary evil in city that’s infected by crime

Editorial: It’s no secret that crime remains an intractable problem in the city of Youngstown — through no


Focusing on what’s important

Editorial: Focusing on what’s important In a more genteel age, mothers told their sons and daughters, “never


Criminal justice system in Afghanistan fails girl

Editorial: Sahar Gul can be forgiven if her definition of justice is an eye for an eye — a finger nail for a


Lesson not yet learned: There are no warranties on students

Editorial: Several governors ago, the state of Ohio decreed that by 2001 every fourth-grade student would be


Note to Congress: Grow up and get to work on student loans

Editorial: There they go again. Those ras- cals on the playground of federal lawmaking that we once proudly


Austerity vs. stimulus battle being fought on another front

Editorial: While Republicans and Demo- crats in Washington face off over whether government austerity or


2012 grads must labor mightily to join a changing work force

Editorial: Despite depressing media messag- es to the contrary, all is not gloom and doom for the future of the


Texting and driving still gets a slap on the wrist in Ohio

Editorial: Ohio is on the verge of doing the absolute minimum to combat what two- thirds of the other states


State budget surplus justifies revisiting funding for schools

Editorial: When Gov. John Kasich and the Republican controlled General Assembly adopted the state’s $55 billion