Opinion and Editorial

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Get out of your bubble

Opinion: By Judy Kincaid The Charlotte Observer Her name is not really Cathy, but let’s call her that.


Trump’s proposed budget has good, bad for the area

Editorial: There’s one thing we know for sure about President Donald Trump’s first budget being unveiled


What will happen in Iraq after the Islamic State is defeated?

Opinion: SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq This most liberal of Iraqi cities, nestled in the mountains of Iraqi


Internet access under attack

Opinion: By Paul Goodman Tribune News Service In today’s tech-powered economy, functioning without a


Let more sun shine on all levels of government

Editorial: Despite the cold and snowy conditions outside today, Ohio and the entire U.S. are basking under


Trump-Putin jokes not so funny

Opinion: Midway through the Republican skit in the Gridiron Club’s annual show, a Russian-speaking former


Stick up for free speech

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Charles Murray, someone who makes his living by thinking and


Health-care plan would cost lives

Opinion: By Ramon Castellblanch Tribune News Service If the newly unveiled Republican health-care reform


Republicans can’t ignore infrastructure challenges

Editorial: The latest quadrennial report on the state of the nation’s roads, bridges, water systems and energy


Yet again, Cuba acts as catalyst for American political tsunami

Opinion: By Markos Kounalakis Special to The Sacramento Bee HAVANA Russia worked to take down Hillary


CIA is exposed (again)

Opinion: Most Americans, I suspect, have the attitude that if the government is spying on someone there is


Pitch in to support strong future for Canfield Fair

Editorial: A $4.5 million improvement and expansion project for the fairgrounds makes eminently good sense.


Children in harm’s way with the scourge of drugs

Editorial: With all the extensive press coverage of the opioid epidemic on the local, state and national


We shouldn’t ignore facts pertaining to immigrants

Opinion: We shouldn’t ignore facts pertaining to immigrants I respect the author of a letter in last


Hamad case offers inside look at rare and little used defense involving use of deadly force

Opinion: When does a person have the right to use deadly force in self-defense in Ohio? That question