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Ohio Senate must not bulldoze taut reforms for payday lenders

Editorial: Some payday lenders in the Mahoning Valley and throughout Ohio are no doubt sitting pretty these


Reform immigration one step at a time

Opinion: By Stewart J. LAWRENCE Los Angees Times During the health care reform debate, some observers


Years ago

Opinion: Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2010. There are 219 days left in the year, ASSOCIATED


YEARS AGO

Opinion: Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2010. There are 219 days left in the year, ASSOCIATED


Valley does not need jobs; it sorely needs an industry

Opinion: Is Rush ghost writing now? Two key phrases in a recent diatribe explicitly reflect the ideology


Keeping track of earmarks

Opinion: Keeping track of earmarks Columbus Dispatch: When a person donates money to a politician or signs


Two deadly Trumbull crashes raise questions about causes

Editorial: We’ll stipulate that we don’t know what was going in the cab of the tractor-trailer in the seconds


Who wants Middle East peace; who doesn’t?

Opinion: A new poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza provides a startling conclusion: Fully one-


Mideast peace: a global issue

Opinion: By Saad Hariri Los Angeles Times In the fall of 1991, I was an undergraduate student at


‘Security clubs’ show sharing the pain helps lessen it

Opinion: By ARLIE HOCHSCHILD Los Angeles Times The jobless in the United States lose far more than their


Textbook wars in Texas are not new

Opinion: Public interest in wars and “man-caused disasters” (formerly known as the war on terror) isn’t what


Cutting Saturday deliveries is only one move for Postal Service

Opinion: By Meldon Wolfgang Los Angeles Times Many Americans are upset by the U.S. Postal Service’s


Using the Mexican yardstick

Opinion: One of the most frequent arguments of supporters of Arizona’s anti-immigration law is that it


Will Rand Paul emerge as the new Sarah Palin?

Editorial: Politically tinted eyes have been focused dead on Ohio’s neighboring state to the south in recent


Paul inspires a Bork flashback

Opinion: WASHINGTON I’m having a flashback to the 1987 confirmation battle over Robert H. Bork. Not