Opinion and Editorial

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Why not let the inmate die?

Opinion: COLUMBUS One night last week, state prison officials rushed an inmate to the hospital after he


Christian-Muslim violence in Nigeria bad for America

Editorial: If the deadly religious clashes last Sunday and in January aren’t reasons enough for the United


A rivalry bonded in love

Opinion: WASHINGTON This time, I dispensed with the wheatgrass. Two years ago, I wrote about my


Investigators focus on Dann and wife

Opinion: Despite former Attorney General Marc Dann’s insistence that he and his wife did nothing wrong, it


Abolish the death penalty

Opinion: Abolish the death penalty This letter is in response to the column in the Saturday, Feb. 20,


Religion and politics don’t mix

Opinion: Religion and politics don’t mix Los Angeles Times: On Sept. 12, 1960, Democratic presidential


Opinion Another step backward in Mideast peace talks

Editorial: For a decade, the conventional wisdom has been that Israel and the Palestinians were tantalizingly


Dems face challenge

Opinion: By DICK POLMAN Philadelphia Inquirer It’s crunch time for President Obama and the congressional


Iraq isn’t out of the woods

Opinion: Nearly seven years after President George W. Bush initially proclaimed success, the American mission


Save the Early College at YSU

Opinion: I attended a recent Youngs- town Board of Education meeting during which several principals presented with pride reports summarizing their schools’ achievements, student progress and the challenges of raising educational standards. Especially passionate was the principal of the Early College program whose remarks left no doubt about the vital impact her school was having on the lives of 250 high school students. She made a convincing case for the continuation — at all costs — of the program.


Rangel’s dodge

Opinion: Miami Herald: Rep. Charles Rangel of New York finally quit as chairman of the House Ways and Means


Mandatory medical accounts

Opinion: Mandatory medical accounts The government is moving fast to implement a health care system. I


It’s time to re-examine the awarding of tenure

Editorial: OPINION Tenure — the Holy Grail of academia — is under attack, not from critics of higher


Military funerals sacred

Opinion: The Supreme Court has decided to take a case that may change the boundaries for types of speech


Obama is a timid progressive

Opinion: WASHINGTON There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its