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US policy in Iraq will be 2016 issue

Opinion: For several years, debate over President Barack Obama’s international policies has followed a simple


Ohio must do more to reduce shameful infant mortality rate

Editorial: Many gauges monitor the over- all health of a society, not the least of which is the infant


Are Boardmanites living north of Shields second-class citizens?

Opinion: Are Boardmanites living north of Shields second-class citizens? For the past five years, we have


Stop destructive driving

Opinion: The Daily News, Wahpeton, N.D.: We’ve all heard the stories and seen the results of more teens who


Tressel enjoys lots of goodwill as he sets new course for YSU

Editorial: Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel has been around higher education long enough to


Value journalism in action

Opinion: By Steve Paul The Kansas City Star It’s fashionable to declare the death of “newspapers.” And,


Fed up with intrusion of government

Opinion: WASHINGTON In physics, a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis


It’s ‘Theater of the Absurd’

Opinion: It was in a college theater class that I learned about a genre called “Theater of the Absurd.” These


When should criminal law police politicians’ behavior?

Opinion: WASHINGTON The headlines bring the accidentally colliding tale of two governors and, with it, a


Cameras on school buses

Opinion: Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C.: It is very nearly here. It is likely greeted by some parents with


Line between a police force and military worth keeping

Editorial: The shooting Aug. 9 of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., has left a lot of


Children need water recreation on all four sides of Youngstown

Opinion: Children need water recreation on all four sides of Youngstown I found the recent article about


Moratorium on executions not an indictment of death penalty

Editorial: Has the time come to fire up “Old Sparky,” the nickname given to the electric chair that served as


Drive slowly in school zones

Opinion: The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.: Although summer doesn’t officially end until Sept. 22, the thousands


Sarah Palin Channel is all about ... her

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords I figured the Texas lineup of Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Rick Perry, and a