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Chance at redemption in Pa.

Opinion: Just in time for Christmas, a gift from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to many of the 3 million


Trump’s secretary of state nominee not fazed by human rights violators

Opinion: By Andres Oppenheimer Miami Herald President-elect Donald J. Trump’s decision to nominate


Storm clouds gather at YSU

Opinion: The controversy that has plagued Youngstown State University’s football team could not have come at


On the hunt for American WWII veterans’ stories

Opinion: If life was how we all wished, John Bistrica and Florent Plana would never have met. But this past

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Trump’s victory claims are hot air

Opinion: By Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg View Donald Trump won the presidenital election. That’s a fact.


Starbucks targets our snobbery

Opinion: WASHINGTON Indiana’s Thomas R. Marshall, who was America’s vice president 100 years ago, voiced –


Gov. Kasich is right, wrong on anti-abortion measures

Editorial: In vetoing the so-called Heartbeat Bill amendment passed by the Republican-dominated General


Heartbeat Bill will enliven ’18 races

Opinion: Random questions that come to mind, following the enactment of a 20-week abortion ban and the line-


Trump’s ‘fake’ adviser

Opinion: By Dan K. THOMASSON Tribune News Service WASHINGTON Who thinks it’s a good idea that the chief


Rebuilding military is a priority

Opinion: We are now in a kind of political no-man’s-land between an administration on its way out and a new


Trump takes on Wall St. – literally

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the


YSU’s football coach Pelini makes bad situation worse

Editorial: It has been widely reported that five Youngstown State University football players have been


James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis perfect choice for secretary of Defense

Opinion: President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that James N. Mattis was his choice to lead the


Rise of banal evil

Opinion: By Joshua J. WHITFIELD The Dallas Morning News “Why not join the S.S.? And he had replied, Why


Fakery is reality for next president

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords All hail Augusts Trumpus – the American Putin, whom none can