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Police killings leave Dallas in pain

Opinion: By Robert Wilonsky The Dallas Morning News DALLAS I am sitting at my desk in downtown Dallas.


Trump feeds off criticism

Opinion: By Lewis Diuguid The Kansas City Star Conservative, liberal and every other type of political


A rededication to service, convenience of the airport

Editorial: Seventy-five years ago last Friday, thousands converged on the Mahoning Valley’s brand-spanking new


It was all sweetness – and fun – at July 4th parade in Austintown

Opinion: It’s been three years since I last wrote an entire column on my favorite annual political event –


A free pass for Hillary

Opinion: FBI Director James Comey has given Hillary Clinton something better than a get out of jail free


GOP leaders in Congress putting Americans at risk

Editorial: Two months ago, we warned that the Zika virus was becoming a public-health crisis in the United


My Alzheimer's fight: The goal is to shape the minds of others

Opinion: Editor’s Note: This is the fourth article in a continuing series. Part three was published June 30


Are dead trees a wildfire threat or fodder for economic opportunism?

Opinion: By Chad Hanson Los Angeles Times There are now 66 million dead trees in California’s forests due


Amid funding cut, don't let homeless become helpless

Editorial: Federal bureaucrats recently and unceremoniously yanked out a critical step on the ladder leading


Snowden rats out Russian hosts

Opinion: By Lewis Diuguid The Kansas City Star It’s hard to imagine that anyone who’d run to a landfill


Our spirit on display

Opinion: By James F. BURNS Miami Herald I’ve been to the moon. I’ve been burned. But more often I’m


US attorney general can’t go near probe of Clinton

Editorial: The moment THAT former President Bill Clinton entered U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch’s


Crusade against public corruption is deemed to be corrupt in crucial ruling by the US Supreme Court

Opinion: WASHINGTON The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political “corruption”


Facebook sacrifices the news

Opinion: By Phil Rosenthal Chicago Tribune You know who doesn’t want you depending on Facebook to get


Settlers to US embody our ideals

Opinion: By Daniel Griswold Tribune News Service When America’s Founding Fathers declared their