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Transportation grant boosts research and image at YSU

Editorial: The recent announcement that Youngstown State University will receive the first of four annual


Transportation grant boosts YSU research

Editorial: We aren't sure about the $333 million figure that Dr. Allen D. Hunter, a Youngstown State University


Qana bloodshed may trigger wider conflict in the Mideast

Editorial: While opinions vary as to who bears ultimate responsibility for the fighting between Israel and


Can Maurice Clarett save face, career as a Hitman?

Editorial: Suffice it to say that Maurice Clarett, the Mahoning Valley's fallen football hero, has made more


Signing statements attempt to give president new powers

Editorial: The president has an extraordinary amount of power, including the power to veto legislation with


Was Trumbull swindled by a criminal genius or bumbler?

Editorial: Tony Delmont is apparently the most ingenious and yet most inept criminal mastermind in Trumbull


Ohio high court sides with citizens on eminent domain

Editorial: In a year in which the executive and legislative branches of the federal government have attacked


Commissioners make right move on Oakhill building

Editorial: Obviously no realty company believed it could buy the Oakhill Renaissance Place and operate it at a


Kofi Annan shows his stripes

Editorial: The New York Daily News: The United States, in the person of Condoleezza Rice, continues to stand


Convoluted court decision weakens right to know

Editorial: There is no evidence to date that Taft had anything to do with Ohio Bureau of Workers'


Congress cuts, the states pay

Editorial: Washington Post: Do large corporations need another tax break? The House of Representatives seems to


The 'conservative' Congress is eager to meddle -- again

Editorial: Here they go again. Members of the United States Congress are busy attempting to work their


PONY tournaments deliver a win-win for the Valley

Editorial: It's PONY time in the Valley. The expanded national Protect Our Nation's Youth fastpitch softball


Middle East demands attention before war spreads

Editorial: The deaths continue in Lebanon and Israel, with far more civilians having been killed than Israeli


Blame it on Bud (Selig, that is)

Editorial: San Jose Mercury News: Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's bungling of the steroid era ensures that he