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Tressel deserves credit for widening YSU’s base of student recruitment

Editorial: There’s one thing James P. Tressel has going for him as president of Youngstown State University


Taking on hate crimes

Opinion: By Nancy K. BARON-BAER The Philadelphia Inquirer The anniversary of a low point in American


Non-candidates raking in dough

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Once upon a time, presidential contenders and their political


Fiorina is major leaguer

Opinion: To invoke a baseball metaphor, Carly Fiorina has been called up from the minors to the major


Drawing for The Queen of Hearts game on hold while future is discussed

Editorial: We italicized “the” in the headline because we have no doubt there is only one Queen of Hearts game


A pope for folk on the periphery

Opinion: By Nicholas P. CAFARDI Los Angeles Times On Tuesday afternoon, a pope from “the ends of the


Wean takes philanthropy in the Valley to higher level

Editorial: The best philanthropists know that there’s more to philanthropy than writing checks. And among


Trump is no Reagan

Opinion: Donald Trump should have toured the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library before he debated at the


Sanctuary cities have played a venerable role in human history

Opinion: By Elizabeth Allen Los Angeles Times Some members of Congress and Republican presidential


US must do more for refugees as humanitarian crisis in Syria will not end any time soon

Opinion: The desperate refugees setting sail on rickety boats and scaling barbed-wire fences to enter the


Youngstowners yet again can reject fracking issue

Editorial: A ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that will result in the anti-fracking charter amendment


Poverty rate is dubious

Opinion: By Robert Rector The Heritage Foundation According to the Census Bureau’s new annual poverty


Hispanic Heritage Month offers opportunities for all

Editorial: Growth, understand- ing and unity are the watchwords that forge this year’s observance of Hispanic


Debate over Iran pact is not over

Opinion: The suspense over the immediate fate of President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran is over;


It was a case of adult overreaction

Opinion: By Barbara Shelly The Kansas City Star The police chief of Irving, Texas, says a young Muslim