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YSU needs business leader to serve on trustee board

Editorial: It doesn’t take much for perception to become reality in politics, as Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will


Applause, applause

Opinion: Applause, applause EDITOR: If you missed “Music Man” at Powers Auditorium ... you really missed


Winds of change blowing over China

Opinion: After President Richard Nixon went to China, the United States urged that nation’s leaders to forget


ISRAEL

ISRAEL The Jerusalem Post, May 19: The long-awaited summit between Prime Minister Benjamin


Better science, please

Better science, please Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Just when you thought that the industry that


NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE

Opinion: “We demand this trial be held again and a death penalty issued.” Qais Aboud Ali Khutri al-Janabi


Bloody mission in Afghanistan goes awry

Opinion: It may seem a little paradoxical for a journalist to say, but I reallllly hope Robert Gates was


A Memorial Day to remember

Editorial: A Memorial Day to remember Over the years, the character of Memorial Day has changed. Its roots


Free speech an inherent good

Opinion: WASHINGTON — For several decades, most of the ingenuity that liberal academics have invested in


The good old days

Opinion: The good old days EDITOR: They use to put people in jail for charging 10 percent interest. The


Opposition to casino proposal growing

Opinion: It’s always risky to bet against a guy with boatloads of money, but here goes: Dan Gilbert, owner of


Mark68: It’s a memorial in a personal way

Opinion: It was just my son’s homework assignment. But it quickly — albeit subtly — became a reminder of


Former school site shouldn’t become gas well field

Opinion: Former school site shouldn’t become gas well field EDITOR: I am writing as a concerned wife,


Politics aside, state budget needs bipartisan approach

Editorial: First the politics surrounding Ohio’s collapsing state budget: Republicans who control the Senate


The rush to bankruptcy

Editorial: The rush to bankruptcy The Obama administration appears ready to force General Motors to file for