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Snack Wrap Era keeps U.S. moving

Opinion: OAK BROOK, Ill. — To gauge this pell-mell nation’s velocity, visit here with Jim Skinner, CEO of a


Huckabee’s tie to tobacco puffs out

Opinion: Just when it appears Mike Huckabee might be the man of conviction that grassroots Republicans are


Public education must change

Opinion: Public-school leaders across America make the dropout problem seem complicated, because they really


Steroids and other news shockers

Opinion: It seems that everyone is shocked that some of baseball’s biggest names were just implicated in the


Lessons to be learned from Jamie Lynn, Juno

Opinion: I didn’t have to figure out how to break the news of Jamie Lynn Spears’s pregnancy to my kids.


WRTA must be prepared to take on its detractors

Opinion: The Western Reserve Transit Authority doesn’t have much time to make the case for a 0.25 percent,


Years ago

Opinion: Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26


Computer engineers blind to reality

Opinion: When I bought one of these small, cheap, old-fashioned cathode-ray TV sets on sale to watch while


“The war is far from over. And we must protect and build on the gains earned with the blood of

Opinion: “The war is far from over. And we must protect and build on the gains earned with the blood of our


Mahoning Valley Hospital’s loss would hurt area

Opinion: Mahoning Valley Hospital’s loss would hurt area EDITOR: It was very disheartening to hear that


Honor principles of Kwanzaa this week and all year

Honor principles of Kwanzaa this week and all year The Mahoning Valley will join the rest of the


One day it will add up to real money

Opinion: Everybody knows Uncle Sam is running in the red and has been for a long time. Still, it’s a shock to


‘Person of the Year’ is a myth

Opinion: So Time magazine is the latest to swoon at Vladimir Putin’s “steely confidence and strength,” his


‘The people’ have choices to make

Opinion: We Americans must love our economic and cultural cycles because we go through them with an eerie


Good start on air congestion

Opinion: Good start on air congestion Washington Post: If Santa and his reindeer flew through the New