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Youngstown must adapt to change in discrimination law

Editorial: Youngstown must adapt to change in discrimination law If Youngstown City Council is intent on

Embattled President Obama is not throwing in the towel

Editorial: President Barack Obama went before the American people Wednesday night and assured them that he gets

Bin Laden’s audio message empowering for terrorists

Editorial: Reacting to Osama bin Laden’s endorsement of the plan to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day,

Strickland adjusts priorities in year full of challenges

Editorial: Strickland adjusts priorities in year full of challenges Coming off a year during which an

Judge in murder trial must not abet mockery

Editorial: The trial of the man charged with killing Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers, is under way Wichita, Kansas. However, an issue that could raise the abortion battle to an even higher level of violence looms large.

Attention shifts from rescuing to rebuilding

Editorial: It has been nearly two weeks since a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti and there have been more than 50 aftershocks since. But the waves that shock the human consciousness con- tinue as news spreads from Haiti.

Excuses don't make the grade

Editorial: Imagine you had a child who took a test that was scored by two teachers, one of whom gave it a low F and one a high F. Would you accept the child’s complaint that the grade was suspect be- cause the teachers were so far apart?

Youngstown, Warren schools can’t afford to skip the ‘race’

Editorial: President Barack Obama’s intention to seek $1.3 billion in this year’s federal budget to con- tinue the “Race to the Top,” a program designed to improve academic achievement in schools throughout the country, prompts this question: Will the Youngstown and Warren school dis- tricts, which are in academic emergency and ac- ademic watch, respectively, make a concerted bid for the grant money?

America suffers setback in battle against Taliban

Editorial: Pakistan, the United States’ chief ally in the war on global terrorism, has told the Obama adminis- tration that it will not conduct any new military assaults on Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border.

Great Lake states must all react to threat of Asian carp

Editorial: There are lots of good fish stories, typically tales about the big one that got away. This is a story about some big fish that got away, but there’s nothing good about it.

Massachusetts voters reflect growing national discontent

Editorial: The Democratic Party’s euphoria on Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama took the oath of office as the

Google takes a stand in front of China’s cyber tank

Editorial: Google takes a stand in front of China’s cyber tank Google will go down in history for a number of

Youngstown school board should give up the fight

Editorial: Just a couple of days after the State Superin-tendent of Public Instruction Deborah Delisle painted

Ohio education chief Delisle takes reins of Y’town schools

Editorial: There’s bad and good in the Youngstown City School District’s being rated the worst in academic

A little warm glow returns

Editorial: A little warm glow returns The prospect that the skies south of Warren may soon be lighted by the