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My Alzheimer’s fight: Buy time

Opinion: Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series. Part two was published June 23 on this page.


Don’t fret Brexit

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service It’s on the order of insanity, this wild, wobbly


Party disaffection fueled Brexit

Opinion: How fitting. As the Brits cast a stunning vote to quit the European Union, Donald Trump was opening


Supreme fraud goes on

Opinion: Last week the Supreme Court of the United States voted that President Obama exceeded his authority


Character not a factor in election

Opinion: Ranking right up there with the line, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?” is


$4M Valley jobs grant proves Uncle Sam can spend wisely

Editorial: Over the years, many fed- erally funded projects have been deserved targets of derision and


Facts suggest that white men should be targets of profiling

Opinion: By Rex Huppke Chicago Tribune After a Muslim-American claiming allegiance to the Islamic State


Minority students get boost

Opinion: By Eric Frazier The Charlotte Observer As much as it pains hard-right conservatives, Thursday’s


White House can’t ignore bipartisan YARS support

Editorial: Last December, Ohio’s two U.S. senators and the Mahoning Valley’s three U.S. House members signed a


Politician plans assault-rifle event

Opinion: By Fred Grimm Miami Herald The horrors of Orlando summoned reactions of shock, grief, anger from


Tubman deserves respect

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune I’d like to think the defeat of Rep. Steve King’s proposed


Republicans should shun Trump

Opinion: “There’s an old adage about a vat of wine standing next to a vat of sewage. Add a cup of wine to the


Anger over globalization threatens Europe and US

Editorial: Little good can COME from the geopolitical divorce of the century that played out last week in the


South grad has high hopes for city schools’ new CEO

Opinion: South grad has high hopes for city schools’ new CEO Welcome Youngs- town City School District


Trump will be Trump

Opinion: New York billionaire Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president, flew