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Strickland should not rush to change higher ed profile

Editorial: Anyone who has paid close attention to higher education in Ohio would agree with Gov. Ted


Postal Service should revisit its decision on mail delivery

Editorial: The U.S. Postal Service's one-size-fits-all scheme for delivery of mail to new housing developments


Even those who deserve to die should be given dignity

Editorial: The happiest face that can be put on the recent botched executions in Iraq is that the new


Exploding U.S. deficit, debt demands action in Congress

Editorial: Seven months ago, U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, launched a legislative initiative to


The president asserts new authority to open mail

Editorial: There is a basic contradiction in the White House's explanation of President Bush's signing


Strickland offers a glimpse into his governing agenda

Editorial: Inaugural addresses are about broad themes; state of the state -- or the union -- speeches are


Martin Luther King Jr. saw better days ahead

Editorial: In the last speech he gave before he was assassinated, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about


Columbiana health board should fire commissioner

Editorial: Two years ago, we urged the Columbiana County Board of Health to fire health Commissioner Robert


Take me out to the smorgasbord

Editorial: The Los Angeles Dodgers have combined two of America's favorite pastimes for one price: baseball and


Youngstown should use connection with new AG

Editorial: When Attorney General Marc Dann, the Mahoning Valley's claim to statewide political fame, appointed


Buckeyes show class in accepting BCS defeat

Editorial: The first 16 seconds of the national championship game Monday night were ecstasy for Ohio State fans


Things are looking up at the regional airport

Editorial: Three years ago, we took the Federal Aviation Administration to task for twice turning down the


Lessons of Enron: forgotten before they've been learned

Editorial: It appears that some federal regulators are prepared to forget the lessons of Enron even before the


Vicious killer should die

Editorial: Kenneth Biros, like some other local murderers who come to mind, should already been dead. Biros


Boardman trustees hurt chances of levy's passage

Editorial: At the very meeting that Boardman Township's fiscal officer, William Leicht, broached the idea of