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Allegiant Air’s departure will hurt regional airport

Editorial: A year after the region was buffeted with the news that the first daily commercial air service out


Clouds darken over YSU

Opinion: By the time a mediator’s fact-finding report is in the hands of labor-contract negotiators for


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Nonviolence week honors 'Hugs' activist, Vicars

Opinion: This is the talk of Ken Nwadike Jr. in and around the U.S. this year: “This man gave me a hug –


Tasteless mockery of trailer- park life

Opinion: By Brooke Binkowski Los Angeles Times (TNS) A new restaurant has opened in San Diego’s tony


Trump wearing out his welcome in many venues at home, abroad

Opinion: By Albert R. HUNT Bloomberg View President Bill Clinton went to Oklahoma City after a terrorist


Soft drinks don’t ‘feed the world’

Opinion: By Jill Richardson OtherWords Coca-Cola has a new ad in which a young girl wishes to grow a


Nancy Kearns Morris blazed trail of community leadership

Editorial: Those attending today’s memorial service at St. John Episcopal Church in Youngstown for Nancy


Flawed Aghanistan plan

Opinion: New York Times: If there is a compelling case to be made for deepening the United States military


Racism in the spotlight

Opinion: By Germine Awad The Dallas Morning News President Donald Trump’s slowness to condemn the


Trump’s stance on monuments a giant leap across illogical chasm

Opinion: Vindicator Politics Writer David Skolnick’s column will return next week. By Tom Mackall Special


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Growing opiate epidemic in need of quick response

Editorial: When it comes to making a dent in the deadly opiate epidemic that stubbornly continues to spiral


Klan rallies not new

Opinion: By Dan K. THOMASSON Tribune News Service WASHINGTON Years ago, the chief of police in Gary,


Trump changes his mind about war in Afghanistan

Editorial: There’s a reason Afghani- stan is called the “Graveyard of Empires”: No occupying force has


Laws that subvert the rule of law

Opinion: WASHINGTON When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts’ Constitution a commitment to a “government of


Old Glory was missing

Opinion: By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View They may call themselves “white nationalists,” but the