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Looking for a win

Opinion: Looking for a win EDITOR: I attended the May 13 meeting conducted by the Austintown trustees


Ever hopeful third parties

Opinion: Scripps Howard: In all the Memorial Day excitement you might have missed it, but over the weekend


Liberals can’t do without black mascots

Opinion: Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia


“A tip of the hat to a class act.”

Opinion: “A tip of the hat to a class act.” Actor George Clooney Speaking about Sydney Pollack, the


Set the rice free

Set the rice free Scripps Howard News Service: The Philippines, like many poor nations where rice


Looming deficits must not be ignored

Opinion: Congress is poised to approve a budget blueprint that would kick many long-term spending issues to


Memo to Hillary Clinton: Please don’t quit

Opinion: Last summer, I shook Sen. Hillary Clinton’s hand and gave her my business card when she met with the


U.S. R&D locomotive significantly off track

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Eight out of 10 Americans tell pollsters they believe the nation is on the “wrong


Public housing crisis gets short shrift

Opinion: WASHINGTON — There’s a housing crisis in America — but it doesn’t have anything to do with the


Municipal residency fight goes to Ohio Supreme Court

Editorial: Municipal residency fight goes to Ohio Supreme Court More than two years after an odd mix of


Italian Fest seeks nominations

Opinion: YOUNGSTOWN — The 2008 Greater Youngstown Italian Fest is seeking nominations for the Italian Man and


Memorial to King hits a snag

Opinion: Decades after it was first proposed, 12 years after fundraising started and only months before


Hope for a working FEC

Hope for a working FEC Washington Post: In the midst of a presidential election, the country


McCain’s pastor problem persists

Opinion: John McCain wants Americans to elect him to provide tough leadership in a dangerous world. But when


White decline engenders fear

Opinion: Hillary Rodham Clinton is right. She has the broader and whiter political coalition, so she should,