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Of ‘The Musical’ I sing

Opinion: Of ‘The Musical’ I sing EDITOR: Sunday afternoon my wife dragged me downtown to the Oakland


Mahoning Valley experiences highs, lows with RTI’s plans

On Monday, you could almost hear the popping of champagne corks in the Mahoning Valley after


We’re losing the war in Afghanistan

Opinion: Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld says in the current edition of GQ magazine that the


After two decades, still no market for fuel cells

Opinion: FRANKFURT, Germany — I am writing this column on a Toshiba laptop powered by a fuel cell produced by


Drive, she said

Opinion: New York Daily News: These uppity Saudi women. Here they go again, demanding to drive themselves


Correction

Correction A paragraph in Monday’s editorial on the national debt used millions or billions


College students not ‘civics’ minded

Opinion: “If you can read this, thank a teacher,” says the bumper sticker on the car in front of me. But


Would Mukasey as AG stand up to Bush?

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Michael Mukasey, the retired judge nominated to be attorney general, is called a “law


“We are not intending to stop them and revoke their license indefinitely but we do need them

Opinion: “We are not intending to stop them and revoke their license indefinitely but we do need them to


Latin American exports declining

Opinion: New U.S. government trade statistics are setting off alarm bells among international traders in this


A defining point in the Mahoning Valley’s timeline

Back in 1977, a 30-year-man at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Campbell Works was likely to be in


Hooked on caffeine

Opinion: Chicago Tribune: Not that we tend to be conspiracy theorists, but doesn’t there seem to be a drive


Greenspan sucker punches president

Opinion: WASHINGTON — If you are president of the United States, there must be many days when you wish you


Lack of law and order hurt Iraq effort

Opinion: In a world where the tragedy that is Iraq is usually discussed only in media sound bites and


Colleges loading up on adjuncts

Opinion: The always-interesting “Almanac Issue” of The Chronicle of Higher Education arrived this week. Its