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Russia was no-show at big dance with the Trump campaign, others

Opinion: By Leonid Bershidsky Bloomberg View Political memories are short, but they shouldn’t be this


Guard’s success in Y’town merits longer deployment

Editorial: Early reviews of the Ohio National Guard’s attack on urban blight in Youngstown are in, and most of


Private money meets conservation needs, eases government burdens

Opinion: Editor’s Note: The writer is addressing the question, “Should landowners get federal tax breaks for


Look beyond ‘cute’

Opinion: By Ingrid Newkirk People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Every morning, a crow with just


Let’s put a stop to hate crimes

Opinion: By Kiki Monifa Tribune News Service A few months ago, I was walking with my partner in the Jack


GOP health-care initiative igniting broad opposition

Editorial: Are they all wrong, the Republican and Democratic governors, doctors, nurses, insurance companies,


Not always a good deal

Opinion: Editor’s note: The writer is addressing the question, “Should landowners get federal tax breaks for


Congress’ failure to act has borne unfettered presidential warmaking

Opinion: WASHINGTON Predictably and sensibly, a three-judge panel of the nation’s second-most important


Whole Foods buyout is rotten deal

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of


Work to lessen any threat to Valley’s energy projects

Editorial: The stakes are far too high to allow any significant roadblock to stand in the way of the finish


Trump’s voter-fraud project quickly runs into roadbocks

Opinion: One of democracy’s best protections against blatantly preposterous proposals is that the


Young, MetroParks have the press in their pockets

Opinion: Young, MetroParks have the press in their pockets You could not be far- ther from the truth when


Justice delayed is hurting Y’town city school system

Editorial: A year and nine months have passed since the constitutionality of the Youngstown Plan was challenged


How to combat racism

Opinion: First and foremost, let there be no equivocation about the deleterious effect racism has on the


The Pete & Linda we knew

Opinion: The streets of Poland were crowded on this one Saturday afternoon. It was Celebrate Poland