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Take care of the dirt to ensure that the soil takes care of you

Opinion: By John M. CRISP Tribune News Service Scientists and philosophers occasionally contemplate the


Trump’s magic word on Twitter

Opinion: By Mark Whitehouse Bloomberg View How can Donald Trump keep his millions of Twitter constituents


Win for animal rights

Opinion: By Chris DeRose Los Angeles Times On Sunday, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus held its


Port authority should ask feds to join in ADI lawsuit

Editorial: Nine months after we urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate the demise of daily


Trump needs media bashers

Opinion: By Clive Crook Bloomberg View Even before the latest startling development, I’d bet my West


Look for lesser-known candidate in Democrats’ prospects in 2020

Opinion: Every controversy enveloping President Donald Trump spurs Democratic optimism about their party’s


It’s time to shift focus of mental illness toward intervention, treatment

Editorial: Mention mental illness, and far too often, the focus quickly turns to its tragic outcomes that play


Council should resist urge to welcome growers of pot

Opinion: Council should resist urge to welcome growers of pot As an elder citizen of this wonderful and


Dimensions of Trump’s troubles grow wider than scope of Watergate scandal

Opinion: Last week, at the International Republican Institute dinner, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Republican,


Teachers union president adding to strife in Y’town

Editorial: The inexplicable decision by Larry Ellis, president of the Youngstown Education Association, to turn


Trump in need of a win

Opinion: It’s ironic that a Democratic congressman and a Democratic county prosecutor are holding the key to


Trump staff shake-up won’t help

Opinion: By Albert R. HUNT Bloomberg View Forty-four years ago with his presidency under siege, Richard


Trump did not want witnesses

Opinion: WASHINGTON So why did the president ask his vice president and attorney general to leave the room?


Valley’s ATHENA Awards mark 25 distinctive years

Editorial: In ancient Greek religion and culture, Athena, daughter of Zeus, reigns as the patron goddess of


Memorial Day is no time for glee

Opinion: I walked into a coffee shop one holiday weekend a few years ago and was met with a loud, obnoxious