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Fight gas-tax proposal from Gov. ‘Rhino Mike’

Opinion: Fight gas-tax proposal from Gov. ‘Rhino Mike’ So here we go. Gov. Mike DeWine is in office a few


Balanced budget doesn’t end Y’town’s fiscal woes

Editorial: When Youngstown City Council members meet later this month to adopt the 2019 general fund budget,


Did GM want the Cruze to fail?

Opinion: The headline might come across as a last-ditch effort to denigrate General Motors as it winds down


Youngstown program lauded on national level

Opinion: The Coalition for Health Promotion is one of 112 community coalitions hailed by a national organization.


Birth tourism under scrutiny

Opinion: By Joe Guzzardi Cagle Cartoons As the old saying goes, half a loaf is better than none. Today’s


Country needs a new standard for when politicians should go

Opinion: By Tracey L. ROGERS OtherWords In the 400th year since chattel slavery began in the colony of


Women’s History Month celebrates past and future

Editorial: At the dawn of Women’s History Month this weekend, celebrations rightly run rampant throughout the


Number of Dem hopefuls grows

Opinion: By Will Durst Cagle Cartoons Democrats applying to be their party’s next presidential nominee


Ex-Trump insiders handicap the presidential sweepstakes in 2020

Opinion: It only lasted about 10 minutes, but the interview I conducted earlier this week with Corey


Abuse of migrant children must not be ignored by US

Editorial: The aftershocks of the Donald J. Trump administration’s ill-conceived and inhumane family


Women eye the White House

Opinion: By Jill Richardson OtherWords Something new is happening in the 2020 presidential election


GEORGE F. WILL | Justices push to broaden rights of national citizenship

Opinion: WASHINGTON There have been many memorable – and eventually consequential – Supreme Court dissents


Congress must fully fund program for 9/11 victims

Editorial: The Sept. 11, 2001, terror- ist attacks on America’s mainland claimed 2,996 lives, including those


GOP helped Foxconn bilk Wisconsin

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords A newspaper photograph last summer portrayed three guys in suits and


CAL THOMAS | Flashback to 1938 Munich pact

Opinion: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” One might think that after denying the