Opinion and Editorial

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Ohio owes it to most vulnerable to renew expansion of Medicaid

Opinion: Ohio owes it to most vulnerable to renew expansion of Medicaid Under Gov. John Kasich’s


Youngstown faces uncertainty as a result of revenue shortfalls

Editorial: Almost a year to this date, we advised the new mayor of Youngstown, John A. McNally, to be


Reality check on drugs, crime

Editorial: One tangible barometer of the direct link between drug abuse and criminal activity in our community


Lessening our kerfuffle

Opinion: Winning a championship is difficult. Repeating as champs is even more so. Someone smart pointed


Kasich accenting America

Opinion: COLUMBUS It’s getting harder and harder to listen to Gov. John Kasich without thinking about his


MLK: From dream to scheme

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Martin Luther King did not profit from his acclaim. To him, it would have


Haiti struggling to recover from the killer earthquake

Editorial: When the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere suffers a natural disaster the likes of which


Many ways to run for president

Opinion: Beyond raising barrels of bucks, building an organization and developing a rationale, there are many


Invisible ’16 primary revealed

Opinion: This early stretch of presidential campaigns used to be known as the invisible primary. The action —


Obama blind to terror threat

Opinion: President Barack Obama’s absence from the great gathering in Paris of national leaders from other


Prescription to shoo the flu: caution, care, common sense

Editorial: Reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that flu-related illnesses and


Give the workers a vote

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords One difference between top executives and worker bees is that those


Nigeria must help itself

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The world’s muted reaction to the violence in Nigeria by Boko Haram, an


Mayor’s race in Struthers wide open

Opinion: After eight years as Struthers mayor, Terry Stocker will not seek re-election. “It’s been a great


Romney is no Ronald Reagan

Opinion: By Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg News Yeah, this one isn’t gonna fly. Mitt Romney’s third