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“Speaking as a father, a day doesn’t pass where I wish the evidence that we have

Opinion: “Speaking as a father, a day doesn’t pass where I wish the evidence that we have gathered didn’t add


Taxpayer National Bank

Providence Journal: Happily, a provision in the Great Bailout Law survived the Wall Street lobbyists


Dressing provocatively isn’t a crime — and it shouldn’t be

Opinion: Dressing provocatively isn’t a crime — and it shouldn’t be EDITOR: This letter is in response


Vote yes on Issue 5

Editorial: Vote yes on Issue 5 Tens of thousands of Ohioans have made payday lending a multi-million dollar


GOP promotes fear amid crisis

Opinion: In 1933, at the depth of the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt reassured a frightened country with


Bank solvency triggers action

Opinion: The most important task of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury right now is to restore confidence


Third party candidates are stifled

Opinion: Be honest. What have you learned from the first two presidential debates? Do you expect to be any


Note to John McCain: Being an Arab is not a slur

Opinion: Sen. John McCain owes Arab-Americans an apology. “I don’t trust Obama,” a woman told McCain at an


Negative campaigning nothing new

Opinion: One of the oldest phenomena of American elections— criticism of one’s opponent— has in recent times


“We could have had an army there and it would not have stopped it. Wind is king here,

Opinion: “We could have had an army there and it would not have stopped it. Wind is king here, it’s dictating


Who’s afraid of what?

Opinion: Who’s afraid of what? EDITOR: I turned 50 years old recently and I was thinking the other day


Forgetting the children

Forgetting the children Washington Post: The National Commission on Children and Disasters will


Gerberry, Hagan, Okey earn retention in the Ohio House

Editorial: Like many Ohioans, we are unhappy with the musical chairs being played in the Ohio General Assembly


Israel planning to attack Iran

Opinion: Month after month, the nation’s attention seems to ping-pong back and forth between the world’s two


Daley, Obama shrug off connection to Bill Ayers

Opinion: Turn on the TV news when John McCain is picking up undecided voters by invoking Barack Obama’s