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You missed the best parts

Opinion: You missed the best parts EDITOR: Last Saturday I had the pleasure of taking part in the First


Democratic Party is bigger than one man

Opinion: Democratic Party is bigger than one man EDITOR: Recently a news article appeared claiming that


You want cheap, you got it

Opinion: You want cheap, you got it EDITOR: Early last spring our county engineer announced that Mahoning


Bible trumps a festival

Opinion: Bible trumps a festival EDITOR: Disappointed puts it mildly to read on the front page of Section


Tsagaris can’t be chuckling these days

Opinion: In September 2005, at the formal announcement by Pan Am Airlines that its regional carrier, Pan Am


Obama can’t ignore corruption in Africa

Editorial: When President Obama visits Ghana next month in his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, he


Net neutrality gains traction

Seattle Times: Free and open access to the Internet helped the technology grow and thrive. The


Custer rides again in Happy Meal

Opinion: RAPID CITY, S.D. — Say it isn’t so! Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has invaded Lakota country


Abortion rights backers should be wary

Opinion: I was horrified by the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas on May 31. So when I heard there would


Press openly worships at altar of Obama

Opinion: A criticism heard during the early years of the Bush administration was that the media were “in the


North Korean incident offers more signs of danger

North Korean incident offers more signs of danger Miami Herald: Once again, the communist


Zero tolerance enforcement comes with a twist this year

Editorial: Zero tolerance enforcement comes with a twist this year Youngstown police and the Ohio State


Media under gun in Latin America

Opinion: Here’s the most immediate threat to democracy in the Americas: a concerted move by authoritarian


Danger within an often thankless job

Opinion: Until Wednesday afternoon, many of us probably thought of security guards as annoyances. That’s if


What is the role of judiciary?

Opinion: There is something profound, but also something superficial, about the debate that occurs every time