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Newcomer impressed by area’s enthusiasm for arts

Opinion: Newcomer impressed by area’s enthusiasm for arts EDITOR: Once again, the Youngstown community


Rx for NE Ohio economy: Follow scripts from Pa.

Editorial: A recent analysis of economic malaise in the United States finds Northeastern Ohio’s economy lagging


Hutchison and her Sotomayor dilemma

Opinion: The battle lines at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court


Terrorists target gays in Iraq; hundreds dead

Opinion: BAGHDAD — Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in what some human-rights organizations call the


Don’t close the library

Opinion: Don’t close the library EDITOR: I was sickly as a young boy and my mother would make two trips a


Even the strong may not survive

Opinion: The recent deaths of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays and Ed McMahon have many Americans


Waite is mulling a run for chief justice

Opinion: Judge Cheryl L. Waite of the Youngstown-based 7th District Court of Appeals has been asked before to


Murtha’s money

Murtha’s money Philadelphia Inquirer: The more federal court documents you read, the less


Obama is paying bills owed to labor

Opinion: WASHINGTON — How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses


Sotomayor ready for the big leagues

Opinion: BOSTON — I have long been a collector of sports metaphors, but I never expected such a treasure of


Exotic pets are like time bombs

Opinion: A toddler is strangled to death by her family’s pet python. A woman lies in a coma, her face and


The private health industry’s time is up

Opinion: WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama has indicated he wants a health-care bill on his desk sometime


Tuition increases, like tax hikes, should be last resort

Editorial: Tuition increases, like tax hikes, should be last resort Over the years, whenever Vindicator


GOP is in a snake pit, but there’s a way out

Opinion: Six months into the Obama administration, Republicans appear like a den of snakes, hissing about


Hit enablers, from coaches to owners

Opinion: WASHINGTON — As is often the case with small children who act up, the real culprits are not the