Opinion and Editorial

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Protect the consumers

Seattle Times: Congress now proposes to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. If it will


It’s time for a common Latin American visa

Opinion: MADRID — What irony! While the 27-nation European Union has just approved creation of a common


Health bill won’t stop mounting deficit

Opinion: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser said last Monday that health care reform


Pilots face a challenge battling boredom

Opinion: I started flying small airplanes when I was 18, and after I got out of the service, I used my GI


Average person can help world’s oppressed women

Opinion: When asked about her aspirations for “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women


BRITAIN

BRITAIN The Daily Telegraph, London, Oct. 27: He is a highly effective British politician with a


Don’t take voting for granted

Editorial: Don’t take voting for granted It is a commentary on the freedom that permeates life in the United


What stalled changes Obama promised?

Opinion: On the night before the 2008 election, Barack Obama sounded a familiar mantra signaling the


Captor become captive

Captor become captive Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.: When Akouavi Kpade Afolabi lured more than 20


Union officials shun financial transparency

Opinion: For American workers, it is a telling tale of two cities. Last month, workers in Wheat Ridge,


Is Italy being shamed or titillated?

Opinion: So Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is shaming his nation. That’s what pundits and commentators


Biros isn’t the only murderer who shouldn’t get a reprieve

Opinion: Biros isn’t the only murderer who shouldn’t get a reprieve EDITOR: Your Oct. 30 criticism of the


Nonchalant reaction to swine-flu threat risks lives

Opinion: Nonchalant reaction to swine-flu threat risks lives EDITOR: The global H1N1 influenza pandemic


Is our Mafia history a factor?

Opinion: To hear the mastermind of State Issue 3 tell it, Youngstown was under consideration for one of the


Don’t let incompetence affect sales tax support

Editorial: We don’t know the extent of voter disgust over the incompetence of the Mahoning County Board of