Opinion and Editorial

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Memo to cable hosts

Opinion: By Peter Funt Cagle Cartoons Bill O’Reilly, once the most powerful voice on cable-TV, has been


Is Iowa becoming the last bastionSFlbof presidential precinct caucuses?

Opinion: By David M. SHRIBMAN Andrews McMeel Syndication IOWA CITY, Iowa Is the spectacle being


Room for optimism with Y’town Tenant’s Council

Editorial: Room for optimism with Y’town Tenant’s Council Over the past year, the city of Youngstown has


Truth about wealth, race

Opinion: By Josh Hoxie OtherWords I don’t get that much hate mail – except when I write about race.


Despite dire warnings, passage of sales tax renewal was a given

Opinion: Don’t be fooled by the concerns expressed by Mahoning County officials before last week’s election


Syrian refugee crisis spurs Chaney Cowboys to action

Editorial: A spunky group of Chaney High School students ventured outdoors this week for a timely, heartfelt


Ex-Im bank: Essence of socialism

Opinion: WASHINGTON Briefly suspending their warnings about the rising tide of socialism, a large majority


US, China on the verge of an unwinnable trade war

Editorial: When President Donald Trump announced higher tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, he boasted


Climate change not an accident

Opinion: By Jill Richardson OtherWords Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their


MATTHEW MANGINO | ‘Dysfunctional’ Ohio Parole Board urgently needs parole guidelines

Opinion: When former Ohio lawmaker Shirley Smith resigned from the Ohio Parole Board, she told the Dayton


Cal Thomas: No more college debt

Opinion: Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in 2007 in an attempt to attract


At last, bipartisan work forges credible state budget in the Ohio House

Editorial: Canton Repository: Bipartisan votes in the General Assembly too often in recent years have been


Your pink slip from a robot

Opinion: By Danny Tyree Cagle Cartoons After I started working at a convenience market during high


President Trump, GOP to blame if House pursues impeachment

Opinion: By E.J. DIONNE JR. Washington Post WASHINGTON Our nation does not have to face a


Trump should come clean on undefined Iran threats

Editorial: A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group, decades-old B-52 bombers, a Patriot missile battery and an