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Iraq will challenge the next president

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Right up through Super Tuesday, the war in Iraq had been playing an ambiguous role in


Pentagon can put its trust in Sikorsky

Opinion: This year’s defense budget request, submitted to Congress last week, reveals the Marine One


Mystery continues regarding the spate of food poisonings

JAPAN Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Feb. 6: The mystery continues regarding the spate of food poisonings


Who should pay for Iraq, Afghanistan wars?

Opinion: Since 2001 when “the war on terror” began, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports $649.9


Economy gets shot in arm, whether it needs it or not

Editorial: Economy gets shot in arm, whether it needs it or not A month ago, worries about the economy


A lesson in Liberty: Votes should count for something

Opinion: A lesson in Liberty: Votes should count for something EDITOR: Ever hear the statement, “Why


Send a viral Valentine

Send a viral Valentine Chicago Tribune: This holiday season, 26.4 million people visited a Web


Saudis aren’t keen on easing the price of oil

Opinion: Here’s one of the most important puzzles of global oil security: Since the late 1970s, Saudi Arabia


City high schools are victims of unfair Vindicator coverage of isolated events

Opinion: EDITOR: January 25, a fight broke out between two Youngstown city students at the East-Chaney


Y’town deserves to host a debate

Opinion: Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could face-off in Cleveland later this month in a


A good law emerges from bad court case

Opinion: Legal scholars have long suggested that hard cases make bad law. With the case of Daryl R. Atkins it


WRTA is a city thing

Opinion: WRTA is a city thing EDITOR: Why would anyone other than those living in Youngstown support the


Voters will expect officials to take state audit to heart

Editorial: Voter rejection, not once but twice, of a 9.5-mill levy for the financially desperate Youngstown


Liberal Republicans and media are pushing McCain, just as they pushed out Taft

Opinion: EDITOR: The current political machinations going on in the Republican Party put me in mind of


Tornadoes in the South are tragic reminders

Editorial: Tornadoes in the South are tragic reminders Once again, images from somewhere else in the