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YBI opens door to prove women mean business

Editorial: The explosive growth in women-owned businesses clearly ranks among this nation’s greatest economic


Lunacy on loose in capital

Opinion: Let’s turn our attention, for a moment, to idiocy and insanity. If you fall into one of those


Cadets at West Point have right to express themselves politically

Opinion: By Noah Feldman Bloomberg View Should female African-American cadets at West Point be punished


US Senate race in Ohio between Portman, Strickland deadlocked

Opinion: Rob Portman has served as a U.S. senator for nearly five and a half years, and plenty of people in


There’s no need for apologies over Hiroshima bombing, Obama’s visit

Opinion: By Gary Stein Sun Sentinel President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan, later this month,


Who is Gary Johnson?

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service It’s Nov. 8, you walk into a voting booth, you look at the


Fill bags now to help mail carriers eradicate hunger

Editorial: Residents of the Mahon- ing Valley have long distinguished themselves as compassionate champions in


Feds must take close look at Ohio’s Medicaid scheme

Editorial: When a proposed change in public policy prompts questions for which there are no straightforward


Amtrak helps derail government

Opinion: WASHINGTON In 1906, Leonor Loree, an accomplished railroad executive, examined the dilapidated


Trump rallies racists

Opinion: By Rex Huppke Chicago Tribune It must be a magical time to be a racist. Or a xenophobe. Or a


A tuxedo causes a flap in school

Opinion: By Heidi Stevens Chicago Tribune How much harm can a tuxedo cause? Plenty, if it’s used to


Be responsible to ward off warm-weather pet perils

Editorial: As temperatures zoom up, schools shut down and days grow longer, the fun and freedom of summer loom


Why is socialism popular?

Opinion: Given its track record, one wonders why socialism is gaining in popularity in the U.S. and what


Will Trump’s GOP critics fold?

Opinion: Rarely in modern history has a party appeared as divided over its nominee as Republicans are over


Niles council must reject mayor’s fiscal ‘shell game’

Editorial: The quotation marks around the words shell game in the headline are designed to do two things: 1.