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How will peace with Taliban impact search for bin Laden?

Editorial: While the nation’s attention was focused on the stock market’s plunge Tuesday after Congress failed


Founders didn’t envision Congress as a rubber stamp

Editorial: Founders didn’t envision Congress as a rubber stamp This is as good a time as any for a member


Shelving of housing plan demands full explanation

Editorial: When two officials in the same government administration publicly disagree over the reason for the


All eyes not on Washington; some looking off into space

Editorial: All eyes not on Washington; some looking off into space In the United States this weekend almost


Court reorganization now topic of serious discussion

Editorial: More than a decade ago, we embraced what we believed was a forward-looking, money-saving initiative


The battle for independents

Editorial: The battle for independents Within hours of Friday’s debate, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a


World leaders lay out plan for elimination of malaria

Editorial: For most people in the West, malaria is one of those diseases they only think about when an epidemic


There should be no debate about having the debate

Editorial: There should be no debate about having the debate As this was written Thursday evening, there had


Bush bids farewell to the U.N. by urging anti-terror stance

Editorial: President Bush criticized the United Nations Tuesday for failing to take “an unequivocal moral


Even in these troubled times, there are good things to note

Editorial: Even in these troubled times, there are good things to note Editorials take their inspiration


Debate on foreign policy comes at the right time

Editorial: When the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees take the stage Friday for the first of


The $1 trillion wake-up call

Editorial: The $1 trillion wake-up call Just a week ago, President Bush’s position was that the fundamentals


Valley needs to hear specifics from presidential candidates

Editorial: Unless Ohio suddenly loses its battleground status in the presidential election, the Mahoning Valley


It isn’t necessarily ‘either/or’

Editorial: It isn’t necessarily ‘either/or’ Youngstown school officials have been taking some criticism for


Victims of Sudanese conflict out of sight and out of mind

Editorial: Perhaps it’s the presidential election in the United States, the economic turmoil around the world