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Y’town schools CEO sets graduation bar very high

Editorial: When we read that Youngstown schools Chief Executive Officer Krish Mohip was aiming for 100


Give up, sore losers

Opinion: By Mark Davis The Dallas Morning News The visible effects of a thorough election drubbing


Something old or new for Dems?

Opinion: As an increasingly geriatric Democratic leadership licks its 2016 wounds and mulls the future, who


What’s Christmas like behind bars?

Opinion: By David Simonson Tribune News Service In prison, wearing anything in Santa red will land you in


‘Christmas miracle’ holds hope to stem opioid crisis

Editorial: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called this month’s passage of a $6.3 billion


Putin getting the better of Trump

Opinion: Vladimir Putin must feel as though he’s won the lottery. His government made a modest investment


Designs of the season

Opinion: By Gina Barreca The Hartford Courant Who will you be this Christmas? What are you going as this


Where is religion in US heading?

Opinion: By James A. HAUGHT Tribune News Service For the first time in history, Congress has passed a law


ICE private-prison contract may be just the beginning

Editorial: It is telling that a day after Republican Donald J. Trump won the Nov. 8 presidential election,


Where will President Trump venture on his first state visit?

Opinion: By Markos Kounalakis The Sacramento Bee Barbara Streisand and Lena Dunham may be some of the


Media are covering important stuff

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune You can care that Kanye West was summoned to Trump Tower last


Let the market work

Opinion: By Salim Furth The Heritage Foundation What does it mean to be middle-class in America today?


Fire up support for YSU’s title-game bound Penguins

Editorial: Talent, teamwork and tenacity have propelled the Youngstown State University football team to its


Ohio’s Sunshine Law easy to follow if you’re inclined

Editorial: The press in general – and this newspaper in particular – are too often obliged to fight what we


It’s time to consider a new airport close to Boardman

Opinion: It’s time to consider a new airport close to Boardman I’ve lived all over the country in places