Opinion and Editorial

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Express your outrage over I-80 tolls at hearing

Here’s hoping that residents of Mercer and Lawrence counties turn out in droves Monday to a public


We thank Thee for this fine pig

Opinion: NORFOLK, Va. — For 60 years, the president of the United States has stepped into the Rose Garden


Justice wasn’t served

Justice wasn’t served On Tuesday, a Mahoning County Common Pleas judge appeared ready to hold an


Mother is thankful for charter school alternatives

Opinion: Mother is thankful for charter school alternatives EDITOR: I am writing in regard to a


Small-farm billionaires

Opinion: When the agriculture lobby tries to justify its hugely expensive and inefficient system of taxpayer-


Vindicator file photos

Opinion: Vindicator file photos FIFTY YEARS AGO: The Christmas season of 1957 in downtown Youngstown was


Oil spills death near the dock of the Bay

Opinion: Oil-covered birds look even worse in real life than they do on TV. Not the dead ones so much, except


Jobs in Afghanistan: Taliban or drug trade

Opinion: HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Jaan Agha, 19, said he only had two choices: Join the Taliban or


Be patient, and be strong on your Thanksgiving trips

In the 19th century, American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once penned, “Patience and fortitude conquer


Import safety demands attention

Opinion: Many Americans may be wondering about the safety of the food they’ll eat this Thanksgiving or the


U.S. has key interests in stabilizing Lebanon

Opinion: Remember when Lebanon’s “Cedar Revolution” was the poster child of President Bush’s campaign to


God bless patriot Joe Lieberman

Opinion: This will probably kill his career, but I rise to praise Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent


Keep the Bush tax cuts; gag candidates’ rhetoric

Opinion: Listen to the Democratic candidates for president, and you would think that President Bush’s tax


Who’s the crazy one, Bill O’Reilly or me?

Opinion: On Nov. 8, I had the distinction of being called “a crazy columnist” and a “nut” on prime-time


U.S. outsources terror war to Pakistan

Opinion: Gazing at the 24/7 news from Pakistan showing the democratic disaster produced by our heralded ally