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Ohio needs an enforceable law against illegal slot machines

Editorial: If it looks like a slot machine and acts like a slot machine, is it a slot machine? Maybe.


Mayor needs to tap resources in selecting new police chief

Editorial: Now that Youngstown Police Chief Jimmy Hughes has given up on his plan to cash in his Deferred


U.S. should extricate itself quickly from Libyan action

Editorial: Outside military intervention in Libya was the last option the West, including the United States,


State funding cuts demand creativity from public officials

Editorial: If there’s a phrase that aptly de- scribes what local governments, school districts and even area


The governor’s turnpike trick

Editorial: The governor’s turnpike trick Gov. John Kasich has been boast- ing of late that his proposed


Crime-fighting initiatives good news for Youngstown

Editorial: Two recent front-page headlines in The Vindicator — “23 indicted on gang-related charges” and “OSHP


Foundation funds are separate from hospitals’ general debt

Editorial: ThE Use of charitable foundation funds attached to the old Western Reserve Care System and Trumbull


Kasich’s spending blueprint demands legislative scrutiny

Editorial: The state of Ohio’s fiscal year be- gins July 1, which means the Ohio General Assembly is not under

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Sunshine Week shows spotty forecast for public right to know

Editorial: Here we are in the first week of Daylight-Saving Time, and so theoretically we should all be


President Obama should seek Claudia Hoerig’s extradition

Editorial: Saturday was the fourth anni- versary of the murder of U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Karl Hoerig of


The story in Japan is so huge, human element can get lost

Editorial: The widespread devastation of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake — the most powerful in Japan’s recorded


An endangered legacy

Editorial: An endangered legacy Jim Tressel will always have a spe- cial spot in the collective heart of the


Population decline in Valley requires forthright appraisal

Editorial: The loss of population in the Ma- honing Valley over the past decade is not a surprise, given that


Two rogue nations entering into a dangerous agreement

Editorial: If there were any doubt about the disdain the leaders of Iran and Zimbabwe have for the United


One shuttle earns retirement at the Smithsonian, another should find a home in Dayton

Editorial: One of the final chapters has been written in a book that began almost 30 years ago, when a two-man