Opinion and Editorial

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Open season on charter schools

Opinion: The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer: At last, it’s open season on Ohio’s worst charter schools. Even Ohio


Time for federal intervention to rein in wily payday lenders

Editorial: Plenty of predatory payday lend- ers hit pay dirt by profiting from people’s pain. For years,


NBC anchor Williams is damaged

Opinion: Indecision may not be the best quality in a columnist, but in the case of NBC News anchor Brian


Republicans’ love affair with warfare costs our nation a lot

Opinion: Republicans’ love affair with warfare costs our nation a lot Throughout this country’s history


Will judges toss Sciortino?

Opinion: More than three months after the Ohio Supreme Court told three retired judges considering the


Flying the aromatic skies

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: For cats and dogs that don’t like to travel, pet owners can buy “calming”


Is Carson presidential material?

Opinion: By Stuart Rothenberg CQ-Roll Call Just because something has not happened before doesn’t mean it


A super bad deal

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords How about this year’s Super Bowl, huh? You may know that the


Beware genetic modification

Opinion: By Marcy Darnovsky and Jessica Cussins Los Angeles Times Britain is about to become the only


Empty gesture on homeless

Opinion: By Francis Barry and Michael Newman Bloomberg News When it comes to America’s homeless, there


Unforeseen costs could hinder far-flung use of body cameras

Editorial: There were three stories in Mon- day’s Vindicator relating to body cameras worn by police that


Martinis and cigarettes — but no salt

Opinion: By Jack Ohman The Sacramento Bee People my age (54.26, but who’s clock-watching) become


Kids popping a lot of pills

Opinion: By Steve Pasierb The Vindicator We get the calls every day. Parents, siblings, grandparents and


SOWELL: A painful sign of our times

Opinion: The current controversy over whether parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for


Plight of working poor grows more dire in Mahoning Valley

Editorial: New data from Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley provide the latest evidence that the