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Protest vote in Europe is roaring

Opinion: WASHINGTON When the dyspeptic poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who loathed Belgium even more


State edicts irk local Dems

Opinion: It will be interesting to see how many Mahoning County Democratic Party precinct committee members


Keep up battle against cancer

Opinion: Keep up battle against cancer Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky.: Kentucky’s cancer rates are


Striking a blow for fairness

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords At last, our political leaders in Washington are taking action for


Chief justice should review management of Martin case

Editorial: Is four years too long a time for a major capital murder case to come to trial? Vivian Martin’s


Teachable moment for Clinton

Opinion: WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton’s tone-deaf comments about being “dead broke” after she and her husband


Amendment lacks substance

Opinion: Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune: After thousands of years of working the land and tending the


Ohio launches a pilot project to help pregnant drug addicts

Editorial: One need not travel far to land smack-dab in the Dark Ages of archaic attitudes and reckless public


Bergdahl case isn’t Benghazi

Opinion: Count me among the confounded by the White House handling of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. With the


Sterling punished harshly; where’s freedom of speech?

Opinion: Sterling punished harshly; where’s freedom of speech? I am saddened by recent events concerning


Largely powerless city BOE doesn’t need to meet so often

Editorial: Not to put too fine a point on it, but the state-mandated Youngstown City Schools Academic Distress


Bergdahl’s release at what cost?

Opinion: Euphoria over the Taliban’s release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was quickly tempered by media reports


Put Main St. in driver’s seat

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords As we know, the barons of Wall Street haven’t hesitated to raid our


Library board’s plan to lower taxes heightens its credibility

Editorial: Mahoning County taxpayers, check this out: Your public library system wants to lower your taxes by


Has the president gone rogue?

Opinion: WASHINGTON What Winston Churchill said of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — that he was a