Opinion and Editorial

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Mahoning County adopts status quo spending plan

Editorial: During the campaign in the fall of 2014 for the renewal of a half-percent sales tax and the addition


GOP sets sights on 2016 election

Opinion: Feeling empowered by the 2014 general election, the Mahoning County Republican Party fielded


Hunger in Valley takes no holiday; commit to help

Editorial: Once again this year, Mahoning Valley residents proved their mettle by reaping success in one of


Scalia speaks the truth

Opinion: Among the many sad signs of our time are the current political and media attacks on Supreme Court


Fossil fuels beneficial to humans

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service The Paris summit on global warming ended with a triumphant,


Jig’s up for sugar water purveyors

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords If your car’s battery terminals are corroded, just open a can of


Obscene monuments to mammon

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords The uber-rich like to collect trophies as proof of their unsurpassed


GOP isn’t impressed with climate-change agreement

Editorial: It was a strategy born of Republican intransigence, but it may well be the final nail in the


Obama refuses to face reality

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service If President Barack Obama had left troops in Iraq, if he had


Be on alert for new water rule

Opinion: By Daren Bakst and Don Parrish The Heritage Foundation Property owners need to be on the alert.


Vienna spill exposes gap in Ohio’s drilling rules

Editorial: Nine months ago, about 10,000 gallons of a petroleum derivative spilled from injection-well holding


Will the force be with us?

Opinion: By Charles Camosy The Dallas Morning News The debate after the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist


Blastoff from Sandusky

Opinion: Columbus Dispatch: It’s fitting that the state that gave America John Glenn and Neil Armstrong – not


Preventing crime in free society

Opinion: By John M. CRISP Tribune News Service The 2002 film “Minority Report” postulates a future in


Pink ribbons won’t cure cancer

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Must everything be commercialized — even cancer? That’s a question