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Public needs to stand with press

Opinion: By Bill Lueders Tribune News Service President Donald J. Trump, building on such previous slurs


President should man up and apologize to Obama

Editorial: We aren’t na Øve enough to believe that President Donald J. Trump will admit that he was wrong when


Making America ‘healthy’

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Obamacare came at the American people as an endlessly


US, Russia differences run deep

Opinion: By Howard Mettee Special to The Vindicator One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wisest


‘Citizen science’ builds democracy

Opinion: By Caren Cooper Los Angeles Times Facts, and reality itself, are under attack. President Trump


Trump’s budget essential

Opinion: President Trump presented his first budget to Congress on Thursday. It is, as The Washington Post


Ohio’s Baby Box program can lessen infant mortality

Editorial: Unacceptably high infant mortality rates in the Mahoning Valley and throughout Ohio continue to


Rebuilding Meridian Road will ease motorists’ tensions

Editorial: To all you frazzled motorists who wonder how your cars will fare in the obstacle course that is


Trump fooling himself and us, too

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Some people who attain high public office grow in their position of


Border wall like no other

Opinion: By Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg View President Donald Trump’s border wall is moving, at least


Mosul residents ready to rebuild

Opinion: MOSUL, Iraq As the Islamic State was withdrawing from the eastern half of this city in late


Health care realities confront GOP

Opinion: By Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg View The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Republican


Questions for Judge Neil Gorsuch

Opinion: WASHINGTON This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will question Judge Neil Gorsuch about the


Reality check on Cuba

Opinion: By Fabiola Santiago Miami Herald At the height of the Cuba travel frenzy, unleashed by the


Valley basketball squads score excitement and pride

Editorial: While many roundball enthusiasts are looking forward with excitement to the final rounds of the