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Bowl games are a corporate hustleSClB

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords For thrilling sports action on television, it’s hard to top the


Young activists make US better

Opinion: By Lewis W. DIUGUID The Kansas City Star The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would smile with pride


Broadband rates are just too high

Opinion: By Dana Floberg OtherWords As the digital revolution hurtles ahead, low-income communities


Record 2015 indictments point to need for battling heroin use on many fronts

Editorial: One tangible barometer of the direct link between drug abuse and criminal activity in the Mahoning


Sound, vision and Bowie

Opinion: Sound, vision and Bowie Chicago Tribune: At the start of the 1970s, rock ’n’ roll was happy with


Problems that won’t go away

Opinion: By Barry Goldman Los Angeles Times It started with garbage. When I was a kid and didn’t want


Political system is flawed

Opinion: T. Boone Pickens is upset about a presidential nominating process he says “emphasizes accusation


Media must correct mistakes in presidential campaign coverage

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Get over your horse-race obsession, mass media, and focus


US should find way to get drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’

Editorial: There’s good and bad news stemming from the capture last week of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the


Clinton works magic

Opinion: By Albert R. HUNT Bloomberg View Does Bill Clinton still have his political magic? How much of


Global ruling is just not cool

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords They say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad,


Global struggle against Islamic militant violence won’t end soon

Opinion: By Henri J. BARKEY Los Angeles Times The Sinai Peninsula. Paris. Mali. San Bernardino. We keep


As steel industry layoffs grow in Valley, fight for fair trade must press on

Editorial: Unfair trade, low oil PRICES and anemic global demand ganged up on the U.S. steel industry in 2015


Is the union strong?

Opinion: By Ann McFeatters Tribune News Service WASHINGTON Resign yourselves. It’s time for POTUS to


McNally should step aside while on trial in Cleveland

Editorial: There is a reason the Youngstown Home Rule Charter specifies that the president of city council