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Mayor Williams has earned re-election; work to be done

Editorial: When we made note of the historic nature of Jay Williams’ victory as mayor of Youngstown in November

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Taliban can easily get hired guns

Opinion: FARAH, Afghanistan — Abdullah Jan and Abdul Khaleq are both from the Pushtrod district of Farah


Cuba is not a workers’ paradise

Opinion: As Washington and Havana do their diplomatic song and dance — more like a fire-and-brimstone limbo


Health-care plan like Medicare will work

Opinion: WASHINGTON — America’s broken health-care system requires more than just tinkering. It needs a major


Harmony in Senate becoming elusive

Opinion: Reconciliation: The action of bringing to agreement, concord, or harmony. — Oxford English


Torture is a breach of international law

Opinion: On Sept. 11, 2001, when the twin towers were hit, I was sitting in a meeting in The Hague discussing


Politics stopping technological progress

Opinion: As communities plan ways to spend federal stimulus money — such as in health care, education and


GM’s proposed drastic cuts may still not be enough

Editorial: GM’s proposed drastic cuts may still not be enough When the catalog of cuts outlined by Fritz


PC undermining survival of the West

Opinion: It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been


General downplays Taliban threat

Opinion: PESHAWAR — In the imposing Bala Hisar fort looking down over this frontier city, Maj. Gen. Tariq


Swine flu and you

Swine flu and you Dallas Morning News: Remember all the fear and anxiety over a potential avian


“I think it is very risky to say, or want to say, what the point of origin or dissemination of

Opinion: “I think it is very risky to say, or want to say, what the point of origin or dissemination of it


Protect your investment

Opinion: Protect your investment EDITOR: The Leetonia School District has a levy on the ballot for the


“We do think this will continue to spread but we are taking aggressive actions to minimize the

Opinion: “We do think this will continue to spread but we are taking aggressive actions to minimize the


Loose lips or loose pix: Result the same

Opinion: “On Aug. 17, 1942, a nationally syndicated columnist wrote that she had received ‘a very stern