Opinion and Editorial

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Still not a job after 25 years

Opinion: Market Street in Corning, N.Y., is an idyllic place to carry that community’s annual Memorial Day


Kidnappings in Nigeria focus world attention on terrorists

Editorial: It took the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria to put Boko Haram on the international


What’s it like on Death Row?

Opinion: COLUMBUS A recently released survey of two-thirds of the men living on Ohio’s Death Row confirms


Poor Pfizer? Hardly

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Gosh, you’ve got to feel sorry for Pfizer. The poor drug giant has


A solid investment in N.D.

Opinion: Minot (N.D.) Daily News: Hess Corp.’s upgraded gas plant in Tioga is a welcome investment in North


Campaign restrictions a burden

Opinion: MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota says it has 10,000 lakes. The state also has, according to Anthony Sanders,


Strife, resignations jeopardize the future of the port authority

Editorial: The word “dysfunctionality” used by Mahoning County Commissioner David Ditzler to describe the


Redistricting battle rages

Opinion: It appeared as though a Youngstown City Council vote to hire a company to redistrict the city’s


Don’t forget dead soldiers who cannot receive graveside care

Opinion: Don’t forget dead soldiers who cannot receive graveside care This weekend we visit cemeteries to


Youngstown voters still blind to fracking propaganda. Why?

Opinion: Youngstown voters still blind to fracking propaganda. Why? Once again I am dismayed that the


Supreme Court’s ruling chisels away at the wall between church and state

Editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court missed an opportunity to declare that this is a nation in which local


Government lacks objectivity

Opinion: Sioux City (Iowa) Journal: Predictably, an analysis of merging city and county assessor offices,


India’s next prime minister confronts a listless economy

Editorial: Prior to the global recession that began in the latter part of 2008, India had one of the fastest


Poor often blinded by ‘messiahs’

Opinion: Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught in a fierce snow storm that


A school is reborn with arts

Opinion: WASHINGTON When Principal Patrick Pope arrived at Savoy Elementary School in the blighted