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Labor tension at YSU could undermine enrollment effort

Editorial: Let us be clear: The three-year proposed contract rejected by the faculty at Youngstown State


Remembering our ancestors

Opinion: When it comes to ancestry and immigration, we all have our own stories. Mine begins in Eastern


No one has a coherent long-term solution to ISIS threat

Opinion: If there was ever an issue that required politics to stop at the water’s edge, it’s the fight


With gay marriage, as in other areas, judgment brings pain

Opinion: With gay marriage, as in other areas, judgment brings pain Once again the subject of gay marriage


Russia is invading Ukraine

Opinion: It’s time for President Obama to start using the I-word when referring to Russia’s assault on


Court consolidation gets blessing of Mahoning Co. lawyers group

Editorial: With the Mahoning County Bar Association recommending the creation of a metropolitan court system


Helping hand for Clinton?

Opinion: I’m going out on a limb here, but: Bernie Sanders is not going to be our next president. Still, the


Applause is cheap

Opinion: By Orlando R. BARONE Tribune News Service Forum I was commenting to my freshman class on


Elephants, gorillas threatened

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A lethal combination of corrupt African officials, an oil company and


42 percent rise in health care costs for court workers is questioned

Opinion: 42 percent rise in health care costs for court workers is questioned The headline in the Nov. 19


Ursuline Sisters remain vibrant

Editorial: The Ursuline Sisters, the first order of Roman Catholic nuns to land in the New World four centuries


Now is not the time to give public employees pay raises

Editorial: The tally of the votes cast in the Mahoning County sales tax renewal/ increase issue Nov. 4 has not


Silence of the blacks deafening

Opinion: More than 60 people, mostly black, took part in a vigil for the victim of a shooting. The


No Child leaves art and music behind; Why not a disabled Disney princess?; Teach life support in schools; Act to lessen child hunger; Act to toughen texting while driving law

Opinion: No Child, Common Core leave art and music behind in schools Tight school budgets and the focus on


Ineffective state laws abound

Opinion: COLUMBUS There are plenty of laws on the books here in Ohio that people ignore on a regular basis.