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Youngstown police are loyal to the job, not the paycheck

Opinion: Youngstown police are loyal to the job, not the paycheck EDITOR I took offense to the statement


Plight of a one-industry town

Opinion: Plight of a one-industry town EDITOR: Regarding Forbes magazine’s economics ranking of


There was no party coup

Opinion: There was no party coup EDITOR: While I appreciate all the hard work Tom Lamb has done on behalf


Fatherhood continues to be a work in progress

Opinion: I’m with the boys today — Mitch, Max and Maguire. No real plan; no real agenda. Just father and


Climate bill bad for Ohio manufacturing

Opinion: Ohio is at a critical crossroad. It has lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, taking its


Not all traditions are moral

Opinion: Last weekend, President Obama made it clear that he would not move on the Defense of Marriage Act.


Let’s keep it real

Editorial: Let’s keep it real At first glance, the proposal seems so obviously popular that it is difficult


Bishop Murry has earned community’s appreciation

Editorial: Ever since the American Catholic Church was rocked to its core in 2002 by credible newspaper reports


Culture of medicine isn’t good for doctors

Opinion: BOSTON — There will be time to talk about costs and coverage, about public and private plans, about


Changes already being made in the way elections are run

Editorial: While it would have been instructive to hear all the details surrounding former Ohio Secretary of


State budget cuts will be deep, painful

Opinion: COLUMBUS — Everybody knows budget cuts are coming. Leaders in the Democratic House and Republican


Never mind the naysayers, we need health care reform

Newsday: Socialized medicine. Rationing. Robotic bureaucrats in control. Ominous warnings of that


Black men’s hard work shatters stereotypes

Opinion: At age 92, my dad climbed ladders this spring to a second-story roof to do repairs at the chemical


Iran’s domestic firestorm

Iran’s domestic firestorm Dallas Morning News: By all appearances, the re-election of hard-line


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Opinion: “I believe it’s discriminatory, I think it interferes with states’ rights, and we will work with