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Loss of swimming pools points to incompetence

Editorial: The Youngstown Park Department, led by long-time city employee Joseph R. McRae, had all of last


Trumbull County would save money with fewer precincts

Editorial: Trumbull County Board of Elections member Ron Knight failed in his recent attempt to force a


Tsunami shows lessons from 2004 disaster were ignored

Editorial: Indonesia's promise to build a nationwide tsunami alert system comes 531 lives too late. That's the


Congressional pay raises and minimum wage are apples and oranges

Editorial: Democrats in Congress think they have made a connection that will help them ride to electoral


As stem cell bill advances, president looks for veto pen

Editorial: It is remarkable that President Bush, in six years in the White House, has not once felt strongly


Where to live; where to work

Editorial: It's no secret that the Ohio Supreme Court is going to have to decide the validity of a new state


Disagreement over levy feeds public discontent

Editorial: On April 7, a Vindicator news story about the fledgling Trumbull County Senior Services Advisory


Sheriff does right thing in dealing with deputies

Editorial: Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington, who has been harshly criticized in this space for a lack


Unqualified U.S support of Israel is a dangerous tactic

Editorial: Israel certainly has the right to defend itself, but when most of the world is accusing Israel of a


A pinch of sanity

Editorial: Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune: Anti-tobacco zealots tore their hair out over the decision by the


India, Pakistan must refrain from raising stakes for war

Editorial: Given the long-standing enmity between nuclear powers India and Pakistan -- they have gone to war


A strange marriage proposed in a new world of carmakers

Editorial: The alliance between General Motors, Nissan and Renault that has been proposed by one of the


Warming to a ruling?

Editorial: The Providence Journal: Whether the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices have had time to take in "An


Campbell municipal judge feeds entitlement culture

Editorial: It's bad enough when an officeholder ignores the fiscal crisis confronting government and grants pay


After a vacation, time comes for Congress to earn its keep

Editorial: When Congress returns to Washington, D.C., from its Independence Day recess, its members owe it to