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If your mothers says she loves you ...

Opinion: In recent weeks, a great number of e-mailers have excitedly sought to inform me about a particularly


Issues risky for elected officials

Opinion: Warren Mayor Michael O’Brien is confident that the voters of his city will approve the continuation


America is the greatest country on earth

Opinion: Getting on the F train for the first time in my first week back in New York was quite surreal. After


There’s strength in numbers in war against gun violence

Opinion: If you go on the Web site of the Ohio attorney general’s office and click on the item pertaining to


She’s looking for ethanol in all the wrong places

Opinion: She’s looking for ethanol in all the wrong places EDITOR: Is there a reason why we don’t have an


War requires debate

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Americans are wondering, with the lassitude of uninvolved spectators, whether the


U.S. can’t avoid waterboarding issue

Opinion: Earlier this month, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general claimed improbable ignorance about


Congress spoils a dream

Opinion: Seattle Times: Forty-four senators opted to throw on the trash heap thousands and thousands of


Bible Belt produces Nobel winners

Opinion: Besides the Nobel Peace Prize, what do Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have in


Sen. Biden on target with warning about Iran policy

It is perhaps a sign of the political times that Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s admission that he has seen


Waterboarding makes terrorists talk

Opinion: NEW YORK — It’s not quite torture, but it sure has been painful watching Senate Democrats tie


New buzz in the Valley on regionalization

Opinion: Regionalization is a popular buzzword among those in the Mahoning Valley who are either in government or want to reform it.


There are costs involved when schools must react to threats

There are costs involved when schools must react to threats Return with us now to the not-so-


Dennis marries youth vote

Opinion: Now here’s another way that Dennis Kucinich stands out. If the former boy mayor of Cleveland is


School choice in crosshairs in Utah

Opinion: WASHINGTON — In today’s political taxonomy, “progressives” are rebranded liberals dodging the damage