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Let’s start exporting energy

Opinion: By George David Banks CQ-Roll Call Upon releasing their comprehensive energy policy package last


Are Republicans subverting president’s strategy on Iran?

Opinion: By Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk Tribune News Service Forty-seven Republican U.S. senators,


Sunshine Week is a reminder that government belongs to us

Editorial: Almost everyone knows about Groundhog Day on Feb. 2. Far fewer know what comes about six weeks


GOP throws caution to wind

Opinion: Imagine if a group of antiwar Democratic senators had penned a letter to Saddam Hussein in 2003


Democratic brand needs a makeover

Opinion: After suffering the indignity of losing Mahoning County to Republicans John Kasich and Ralph Meacham


Don’t get caught up in the college admissions craze; take a deep and cleansing breath, and read the book

Opinion: WASHINGTON College acceptance letters go out — actually, college admissions web portals go live —


Supreme Court has chance to strike a blow for fair elections

Editorial: Arizona voters took a positive step 15 years ago to minimize the role partisan politics plays in


The little white lady who could

Opinion: Amid the sea of people last weekend at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., I was a tad


An outrageous act in Ferguson

Opinion: Kansas City Star: Everyone should be outraged over the shooting of two officers early Thursday


Fracking takes center stage

Opinion: COLUMBUS There’s one message that has been heard loud and clear at the Statehouse: The good people


Can Clinton stop the implosion?

Opinion: The storm over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while secretary of state is a useful


Valley will have to make nice with next president of EGCC

Editorial: The four finalists for president of Eastern Gateway Community College came to Youngstown to meet the


Colorectal cancer awareness can raise the survival rates

Editorial: Sam Simon, talented co-creator of television’s longest running series “The Simpsons” and


Boehner must juggle votes

Opinion: Last week’s drama in the House of Representatives, when Speaker John A. Boehner needed Democratic


Pay homage to a holy man

Opinion: By Randy Jurado Ertll Tribune News Service We need to remember Archbishop Oscar Romero 35 years