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ACLU's arrogance condemned

Opinion: Youngstown City Council puts organization in its place


Higher education in the state is under pressure to improve

Editorial: Higher education in the state is under pressure to improve


City homicide rate still appalls

Editorial: At first glance, one easily could conclude that the city of Youngstown has gained considerable


Higher education in the state is under pressure to improve

Editorial: Any hope the higher education community in Ohio may have had of an increase in state funding has


GOP targets children in its renewed attack on immigrants

Opinion: By Jose Miguel Leyva Tribune News Service The GOP is continuing its campaign against immigrants.


LETTERS: 3 stand up for ex-Mooney principal; The Traficant Freeway? Muslim blasts Charlie attack

Opinion: Former Liberty, Mooney principal exuded in educational leadership Recent articles have upset me


Proof you read more than the obits

Opinion: “I only read you for the obituaries.” A wide-eyed journalism grad is not yet broken in to our


GOP targets president’s initiatives

Opinion: Neither the modest new proposals President Barack Obama outlined in his State of the Union speech,


A collapse in lawmaking?

Opinion: COLUMBUS Sen. Tom Sawyer, a Democrat from Akron, made his two-hour drive down to the Statehouse


It’s time to rethink marijuana

Opinion: Los Angeles Times: A federal judge has done what Congress and the Obama administration have failed


Muslim leaders must take on Islamists fomenting trouble

Editorial: This month’s march of millions of French citizens in Paris and other cities to honor the victims of


Will taxing the rich save middle class in America?

Opinion: By Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk Tribune News Service President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed


Let free enterprise bloom

Opinion: The Orange County (Calif.) Register: Even some of those in power in our nation have long recognized


Obama goes on offensive in address

Opinion: President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday didn’t contain any surprises, but it did


Ohioans must not tolerate high infant mortality rate

Editorial: The latest statistics on infant mortality in Ohio shock the senses: The Buckeye State ranks 43rd