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North Korea’s artillery attack spotlights its nuclear program

Editorial: North Korea’s bombing Tuesday of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong undermines the Obama


GM’s new lease on life

Editorial: Last week’s successful rollout of General Motors’ public stock offering heralds a new and promising


Public should have a window into the workings of the court

Editorial: They are the people’s courts, these august chambers where matters of life and death, freedom and


Squelch any talk of U.S. troops joining Mexico’s drug war

Editorial: Drug-gang violence south of the border has reached a horrendous and frightening level. Every day


Frisco’s plan to fight obesity in children is hard to stomach

Editorial: In the land of the wacky and the home of the absurd, the big fat hands of Big Brother are trying to


Begin debating body scanners, but don’t shut down air travel

Editorial: It’s not as if no one knew that full body scanners were coming to an airport near you. Congress


During drilling boom, property owners seek common ground

Editorial: The action of 250 landowners in Columbiana County to organize an educational and service group on


A gangland killer showed no respect for life and gets better than he deserved

Editorial: Sidney Cornwell should have died this morning. Had he, his debt to society may have been paid.

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G20 rejection of US grievances doesn’t promote trade peace

Editorial: Everybody says they don’t want a trade war, and yet when the United States, the long-time biggest


Gains’ budget demand shows myopia of some officeholders

Editorial: What part of economic reces sion doesn’t Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains — and other


Cruze sales are just right

Editorial: Cruze sales are just right The Chevrolet Cruze isn’t exactly selling like hotcakes, and that’s a


A little bipartisanship would help during lame duck session

Editorial: Could it be that President Ba- rack Obama’s unlikely new best friend in the lame duck session of


Obama’s 3-day visit to India a success — except for Bhopal

Editorial: As President Obama was deliv- ering a major address before a joint session of parliament in New


Setting priorities that benefit county is a commissioner’s job

Editorial: It was no surprise that Carol Rime- dio-Righetti won the race for Mahoning County commissioner. Her


Boardman police levy defeat puts trustees in a fiscal bind

Editorial: It’s easy to figure out why 8,043 res- idents of Boardman voted last week in favor of a special levy