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Promise and challenge for YSU

Promise and challenge for YSU A year ago, there were very real fears that Youngstown State


U.S. not in driver’s seat

Opinion: With oil hovering at the $100-a-barrel mark, we’re inundated by calls for a “Manhattan Project” on


Barack Obama engenders good feelings

Opinion: Politicians don’t usually get me excited, but Barack Obama does. Maybe it’s the contrast between him


Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2008. There are 354 days left in the year. On this date

Opinion: Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2008. There are 354 days left in the year. On this date


Keep on truckin’?

Keep on truckin’? Fort Worth Star-Telegram: To hear Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., tell it, Congress


Hillary got her groove back last Tuesday

Opinion: ROCHESTER, N.H. — By Wednesday, the headlines that had blared “Panic” and “On the Edge” were as


President Bush sets the bar high in the Middle East

President Bush sets the bar high in the Middle East Three days in to an eight-day trip, it’s


We old geezers have a lot to offer

Opinion: My very good friend, 76-year-old Rocky Chirchiglia, the famous local band leader, and I regularly


Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year. On this date in

Opinion: Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year. On this date in


“I have not heard such a big explosion in my life. We felt as if our eardrums were about to

Opinion: “I have not heard such a big explosion in my life. We felt as if our eardrums were about to burst.”


Bush pocketing more than share of power

Opinion: Pundits and pols who have been tracking President Bush’s constitutional transgressions can add


Is it a car or a golf cart?

Opinion: Industrialized nations that have launched themselves into the automotive age have most always done


End FEC stalement

Opinion: Detroit Free Press: Although it hardly has the most teeth among government enforcement agencies,


Musharraf’s comments show a blind spot in terrorism war

Opinion: Just 10 days after Osama bin Laden issued a warning on an audiotape to Sunni Arabs in Iraq who have


Ahmadinejad’s skeptics were right

Opinion: TEHRAN, Iran — During an appearance at Colombia University in the United States in September,