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Valley air base gets boost with firing-range funding

Editorial: In the overall scheme of things, the $9.4 million for a new indoor firing range at the Youngstown


Cruz’s tax plan slippery

Opinion: It’s looking more and more as if Ted Cruz, the firebrand conservative from Texas, will be Donald


Can 1 million women be wrong about happiness and life span?

Opinion: By Ed Diener, Sarah D. PRESSMAN and SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Los Angeles Times Do happier people live


Safety before style in autos

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Foreign and domestic car companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars


Valley house fires reinforce need for prevention attention

Editorial: Two house fires in Mahoning County within hours of each other last Wednesday morning in which two


Show us the payrolls

Opinion: Remember that iconic Wendy’s commercial featuring actress Clara Peller who angrily exclaimed


Misspending by charters puts Ohio on the defensive

Editorial: Ohio’s problem-plagued and failing charter school system continues to prove its critics right and


French lessons – good and bad

Opinion: Tuesday evenings were reserved for French lessons. My eldest daughter, Brittany, studied with Madame


Advice to next president of US: Please just listen

Opinion: Advice to next president of US: Please just listen What would you want the president to accomplish


Fired by Facebook

Opinion: Inseparable from the Internet is the message board. The two of them together are Mick and Keith.


Dog pound needs our help to reduce its overcapacity

Editorial: During this season of joy and merriment, some abandoned, lost, neglected or simply unwanted dogs


Supreme Court Justice Scalia outdoes Donald Trump with views on black college students

Opinion: By Rekha Basu Des Moines Register U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia came out with some


Watch that speed

Opinion: Were you hoping to drive a little faster on the highway? Or do you wish Ohio would follow


Justice done in Oklahoma

Opinion: Toledo Blade: Last week, an all-white jury in Oklahoma City found a former police officer guilty of


Action on guns overdue

Opinion: By Mary Kay Henry, Cecile Richards and Randi Weingarten Tribune News Service Dylan Hockley, a