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

Time is running out for peace between Israelis, Palestinians

Editorial: It didn’t take long for the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians to return to its violent

Summit forges optimism for Valley manufacturing growth

Editorial: There is bad news, good news and promising news on the front lines of manufacturing in the Mahoning

New chief off to great start

Editorial: New chief off to great start The oft-repeated suggestion that government function more like a

Prosecutor Gains responsible for the mistakes of his office

Editorial: A suggestion for the staffers of the Mahoning County prosecutor’s office as they begin thinking

Will the new era in Libya result in a brighter future?

Editorial: 22So said Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the leader of the transitional government, in an address to a high-

Gutting Consumers’ Counsel will cost Ohioans in long run

Editorial: Everybody wants to cut the cost of government, but what Gov. John Kasich and the General Assembly

GM-UAW pact bodes well for the automaker’s future

Editorial: General Motors Corp. and its union employees should not be surprised if public reaction to the

Preserving postal service will necessitate trade-offs

Editorial: The nation can survive with- out Saturday mail delivery. Not that we would want to, but its one of

Governor can lead by example by withdrawing pay increases

Editorial: Republican Gov. John Kasich is talking about a “mid-biennial review” of the state’s two-year

Statehood resolution gets no one any closer to peace in Mideast

Editorial: There is no question that an at- tempt by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to win United Nations

Editorial: It is more than a musical instrument. It is a link to a time when Youngstown was emerging as one of the nation’s great industrial centers. It was home to tens of thousands of men who made steel and to a smaller but equally important group of men who founded and nurtured some of the great companies of the day, who designed and built the equipment that produced steel in plants around the world and who invented revolutionary processes for making and milling steel.

Are paper ballots way to go?

Editorial: When officials of the Mahoning County Board of Elections revealed last week their plan to bring back paper ballots to replace the electronic touch-screen voting system that has been in use for nine years, we wondered what had changed since January 2008 when board members argued that it was easier to tamper with paper ballots than the touch screens.