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Obama falters on Syria

Opinion: When President Barack Obama decided to send several dozen U.S. troops into Syria as advisers, the


A hard line on political races

Opinion: Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras had quite a bit to say election night, much


The Valley’s sports icon you don’t know about

Opinion: Beede, Arroyo, Mancini, Jaworski, Kosco, Stoops and Wilkins are among the many last names that get


Center gives black students chance at DC internships

Opinion: Kenneth King, community activist better known as “Brother K,” recently sent me an email I want to


How do we save education in US?

Opinion: By Jay Ambrose Tribune News Service Go back a bit and there was President Barack Obama promising


As a writer one of my most important possessions is my “New World College Dictionary”

Opinion: As a writer one of my most important possessions is my “New World College Dictionary” along with


An adage to chase away the blues

Opinion: As a writer one of my most important possessions is my New World College Dictionary along with it’s


US military on ground in Syria is major policy shift

Editorial: With Afghanistan and Iraq as his points of reference, President Barack Obama has been unyielding in


Act 2 for Issue 1 stalls outSFlb

Opinion: The big winner on election night was the bipartisan redistricting reform package that backers say


Renewals of school levies send message to districts

Editorial: Mahoning Valley school districts batted a thousand this week as 100 percent of their property-tax


Mayor Stocker poised to pull off an election miracle in Struthers

Opinion: The most interesting news coming out of the general election in the Mahoning Valley were write-in


Unruly students must go

Opinion: A recent, widely publicized incident in which a policeman was called to a school classroom to deal


Anti-fracking proponents snubbed by voters again

Editorial: Why won’t the advocates of the absurd proposal to ban fracking in the city of Youngstown just go


Supremes tackle sinister trends

Opinion: WASHINGTON The IRS scandal – the denial of essential tax-exempt status to conservative advocacy


Rabid extremists target 14-year-old

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Our country’s pack of foam-at-the-mouth, mad-dog, right-wing