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Show support now for survival of Youngstown’s private prison

Editorial: A communitywide campaign to ensure continued operation of a robust economic engine for Greater


How big a threat are our veterans?

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords From 1776 forward, Americans have opposed having soldiers do police


CIA must engage ‘bad guys’

Opinion: By Kai Bird Los Angeles Times When reports surfaced in Washington this month that the Obama


Iraq conflict poses threat to America

Opinion: When President Obama went on TV last week to outline his response to terrorist advances in Iraq, he


Pot luck for some workers

Opinion: The New York Daily News: New York’s just-passed medical marijuana law made history in more ways than


Demolition of steel mill dashes any hope of revival in Warren

Editorial: 2“It was like, ‘Oh my gosh. What happened?’” Darlene St. George, Howland Township administrator,


Obama walking a tight rope

Opinion: On Iraq, President Obama is trying to pull off a perilous tight-rope walk over a blustery forest


Mississippi votes its appetite

Opinion: WASHINGTON Chris McDaniel, 41, the flawed paladin of the tea party persuasion who in


Most Americans are not political extremists

Opinion: A recently released survey from the Pew Research Center received extensive coverage from prominent


A crucial role in the world

Opinion: By Cathy Young Newsday The chaos engulfing Iraq, where a brutal radical Islamist group seems


Wall St. insider breaks ranks

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Lloyd Blankfein is very concerned about income inequality. With his


A show of force is the wrong strategy

Opinion: Most often when we think of a “humanitarian crisis,” we visualize desperate displaced families in


Reducing number of captains will boost residents’ protection

Editorial: Six months ago, Robin Lees took the oath of office as Youngstown police chief armed with an


Expected, but still impressive

Opinion: Minot (N.D.) Daily News: It’s not exactly shocking news, given the well-known and ongoing oil boom,


Farmers desperate for workers

Opinion: By Jim Moseley and A.G. KAWAMURA McClatchy-Tribune We are farmers who raise different types of