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Is a sales-tax increase in the offing in Trumbull?

Editorial: Eight months after Trumbull County commissioners received high praise from residents and this space


Trump keeps grabbing spotlight

Opinion: By Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg View Not only is Donald Trump’s call for banning all Muslims


Shariah law fails women

Opinion: LONDON Set aside for a moment the violent incidents associated with people claiming to act under


Refugees as American as baseball

Opinion: By Olivia Alperstein OtherWords I recently watched an old movie called “Take Me Out to the Ball


State checkbook is a key to government openness

Editorial: It’s a mantra Ohioans have heard many times, but from our vantage point it never gets old: “I


Ohio’s death penalty has seen an astonishing evolution

Opinion: The evolution of the death penalty in Ohio is nothing less than astonishing. Five years ago, Ohio


Voters are in a quandary

Opinion: It happened again. An area officeholder was rumored to be the target of a criminal investigation,


School board chief made poor pick for commission

Opinion: School board chief made poor pick for commission I’m a little surprised, but it was not


Obama’s speech on terrorism failed because it lacked clarity

Opinion: By Dick Meyer Scripps Washington Bureau At a moment when Americans can be excused for being


Fiscal woes in Liberty now demand tough love from township trustees

Editorial: During this season of shar- ing, elected officials may be inclined toward generosity, but in


What if Trump gets nod?

Opinion: Last summer, a lot of people I know thought Donald Trump was a joke who would implode before year’s


Sharp spike in homicides in Youngstown demands communitywide response

Editorial: The notoriously mean streets of Youngstown have grown alarmingly meaner over the short span of


Obama shifts policy

Opinion: The Obama administration quietly announced a significant new escalation in its war against Islamic


Probe of Niles city government puts Mayor Infante in spotlight

Opinion: The relationship between Niles Mayor Ralph A. Infante and the Cafaro Co. – particularly with Anthony


Women in combat: An equal fight

Opinion: By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Los Angeles Times “The issue of women in combat per se was no longer a