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Mill Creek board appointment is a chance for new beginning

Editorial: Mahoning County Probate Court Judge Robert Rusu’s appointment this week of Scott Schulick to the


Jeb Bush faces major hurdles

Opinion: WASHINGTON In 1968, a singularly traumatic year — assassinations, urban riots, 16,899 Americans


Face of power in Haiti harkens back to dictatorial rule

Opinion: By Amy Wilentz Los Angeles Times Almost five years since the devastating earthquake that rocked


What comes next on Cuba?

Opinion: By William M. LEOGRANDE Los Angeles Times The historic agreement between presidents Barack Obama


A holiday gift for Wall Street

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Congress, which had been so tied up in a partisan knot by right-wing


Voting by noncitizens as old as the Republic; it’s only fair

Opinion: By Ron Hayduk Los Angeles Times The contemporary immigrant rights movement has commanded


Leave this business unfinished

Opinion: Dover-New Philadelphia Times Recorder: The Ohio House and Senate left some legislation on the table


Taking on the forces of evil

Opinion: By Lee Edwards The Heritage Foundation You’ve probably heard of Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia


‘Tower’ of government waste

Opinion: By Dan K. THOMASSON Tribune News Service WASHINGTON Most of the ubiquitous reviews of 2014


Journalistic bias to blame for one of the misses in 2014

Opinion: “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra once said. Wait — let me correct


Christians in Iraq in harm’s way

Opinion: On Christmas Day in 2008, I attended early-morning Mass at the Al Qaleb Al Aqdas (Sacred Heart)


Governor’s veto of racino bill should provide needed clarity

Editorial: Of all the comments made after Ohio Gov. John Kasich rejected a legislative proposal to provide


Now is the time for all good animal lovers to aid shelters

Editorial: The horrid and heartbreaking sight of a small pit bull named Rambo wandering the East Side of


New Cuba policy fuels GOP debate

Opinion: WASHINGTON Barack Obama has made a geo- political irrelevancy suddenly relevant to American


US recovery gains steam

Opinion: News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.): The recovery from the Great Recession appears to be getting