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Don’t overlook high court races; support Rice, Fischer

Editorial: As hordes of Ohio residents dutifully march to the polls now through Nov. 8, many are bound to get


Editor’s Note: The following letters to the editor on the Mathews Local School

Opinion: Editor’s Note: The following letters to the editor on the Mathews Local School District’s $23.9


Wake up, Youngstown! Idora, steel won’t return

Opinion: Wake up, Youngstown! Idora, steel won’t return Yes, it is a shame the Mahoning Valley’s economics


Incumbent Portman has edge in US Senate race

Editorial: When in doubt about an election, vote your self-interest. That rule of thumb has guided many a


GOP has no shame

Opinion: A highly respected, politically prominent businessman in the Mahoning Valley sent along this doozy


Bill Clinton is not on the ballot, but his womanizing looms large

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune Fine, let’s talk about Bill Clinton. Since the first time I


Prepare yourself for Ohio quakes

Opinion: COLUMBUS While the presidential campaign disintegrates into a series of lewd accusations from


Restore calm after storm to the victims of Matthew

Editorial: On any number of scales, Hurricane Matthew weighed in as a hulking monster as it pounced through


College ranking fallacy

Opinion: By Dan K. THOMASSON Tribune News Service WASHINGTON This is the time of year when you wake up


Portman-Strickland debate today on WFMJ-TV may be revealing

Opinion: With U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, the incumbent Republican, and ex-Gov. Ted Strickland, his Democratic


Maximize public education on dangers of opiate abuse

Editorial: By now, most everyone on the planet has seen the disturbing photograph out of Columbiana County of


Tear down the wall

Opinion: By Peter Lillback The Philadelphia Inquirer The term “public theology” sounds like an oxymoron


Women are not prey – for anyone

Opinion: By Sally Friedman The Philadelphia Inquirer Ask any woman – your sister, daughter, wife –


Presidential debate fails to sway undecided voters

Editorial: There was no clear-cut winner in the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debate Sunday night, but there was


Sanders’ revolution will continue

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Bernie Sanders’ truly revolutionary campaign for president ended in