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Gov. Pence is fixing Indiana

Opinion: INDIANAPOLIS If success at the state level were enough to recommend someone for president of the


Mahoning County’s budget had better not sprout raises

Editorial: 2“They’re not windfalls at all. Departments wish they were, but they’re not.” — Audrey Tillis,


It’s just like in the hit movie

Opinion: By Kim Hone-McMahan Akron Beacon Journal AKRON If you are like millions of Americans, watching


Alaska strikes political gold

Opinion: Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily News: Alaska is well positioned in Congress after November’s election and


Torture occurred and we must own up to our actions

Opinion: By Sen. DIANNE FEINSTEIN Tribune News Service Forum There has been a suggestion in recent days


What’s the alternative to torture?

Opinion: Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue


Obamacare curing nation’s ills

Opinion: Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.: As Republicans in Congress gear up in January for their most


You can count on women ‘stirring’

Opinion: By Gina Barreca The Hartford Courant When Clement C. Moore wrote “A Visit from St. Nicholas” —


Obamacare debate trifling

Opinion: By Theda Skocpol Los Angeles Times Last Tuesday, the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight


Smackdown on heroin abuse gathers momentum in Valley

Editorial: Though it’s too early to declare victory in the war on heroin abuse raging across Ohio and the


‘Culture of rape’ must end

Opinion: By Cynthia M. ALLEN Fort Worth Star-Telegram There are so many disturbing elements to the recent


Obama shouldn’t retreat on torture ban

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords An old bumper sticker offered a stinging response to the Bush-


Torture is a political football

Opinion: The catalog of horrors contained in last Tuesday’s report from the Senate Intelligence Committee


Tell federal officials to renew contract for private prison in city

Opinion: Tell federal officials to renew contract for private prison in city As 2014 draws to a close and


New labor movement unfolds

Opinion: By Harold Meyerson Los Angeles Times Haltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American