Opinion and Editorial

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Changes in health care bring a new way of doing business

Editorial: Providing health care isn’t what it used to be when a board of well-meaning local businessmen with


Reform sentencing and save

Opinion: The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections’ budget for 2011 is $1.7 billion. The ODRC


Worldwide terror alert puts games in spotlight

Editorial: More than 7,000 athletes from 71 countries are in New Delhi, India, to participate in the 12-day


Voters in Venezuela reject Chavez’s destructive antics

Opinion: Miami Herald: The people of Venezuela sent Hugo Chavez an unequivocal message on Sunday: They want


Look who’s killing jobs now — GOP

Opinion: WASHINGTON Republicans like to denounce President Obama and congressional Democrats for what they


Please don’t shoot nonvoters

Opinion: COLUMBUS I have two confessions to make. The first is this: I don’t own a gun. I have fired


Cynical writer doesn’t understand

Opinion: Cynical writer doesn’t understand Last Saturday’s article, “The gospel according to Becky” was a


In the name of the children, please refrain from these

Opinion: This sentence could be found in any cheap romance novel: “The handsome stranger turned out to be my


Race for governor tightens

Opinion: Even though some polls about a month ago had Republican John Kasich ahead of Gov. Ted Strickland by


LETTERS || South Side is neglected

Opinion: South Side is neglected As a resident, citizen, tax- payer, and voter in Youngstown, mine and


The son also rises

Opinion: The son also rises Los Angeles Times: The top leadership of the Workers’ Party in North Korea


Hope turns to nope

Opinion: By Bruce Ramsey Seattle Times Two years ago, a shop window in my neighborhood captured the


Superman has left the school building

Opinion: “Waiting for Superman” is the new film by documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of “An


GOP offers more stalemates

Opinion: One remarkable aspect of the current mid-term campaign is the sense that both parties are already


Protecting the lives of miners should be a priority for all

Editorial: Everyone should be able to agree that underground mines are inherently dangerous places, but that