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Area schools should accept challenge on opiate abuse

Editorial: If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. That well-known but well-worn


There’s work to be done

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune “I’m not shocked. I’m awake.” Those words – novelist Attica


Trump can change the narrative

Opinion: NEW YORK Donald Trump’s impressive victory in the Nov. 8 election offers him a rare opportunity to


Donkey basketball is barbaric

Opinion: By Gemma Vaughan People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Education has evolved over the


Trump reverts to old self in appointment of Bannon

Editorial: President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selection of a man with a history of inciting hate groups as his


Keep Trump in check

Opinion: By Rex Huppke Chicago Tribune Accept this loss. Respect the system we have, because it worked


Stop holding up rural America and white working-class people as paragons of nation’s virtue

Opinion: By Patrick Thornton CQ-Roll Call WASHINGTON I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in


Valley’s state legislators must rise to challenges

Editorial: Despite the surprisingly strong performance in last week’s general election of Republican


Warren voters show faith in ability of government

Editorial: If trust in the public sector can be measured by the opinion of citizens, then Warren city


First test for Trump looms

Opinion: Three days after Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office on Jan. 20 as the 45th president of the United States, 1,245 auto workers in the Mahoning Valley will lose their jobs.


Give Trump a chance

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service You had gone through election night, staying up late,


There must be a way to temper Trump’s most reckless instincts

Opinion: As the results became clear on election night, I got a call from a friend whose 16-year-old daughter


It was disruptive yet ruinous triumph for Republican Party

Opinion: WASHINGTON At dawn Tuesday in West Quoddy Head, Maine, America’s easternmost point, it was


Failures of Obama have nothing to do with color

Opinion: Failures of Obama have nothing to do with color It is quite amusing, bordering on laughable, that


Together in life – and death

Opinion: If you ever encountered Jessie Washington, there was a good chance that not far behind was her older