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What’s next for Mahoning sales tax?

Opinion: After Mahoning County voters rejected making a 0.5-percent, five-year renewal sales tax permanent,


Ban smoking — up to a point

Opinion: The Kansas City Star: The smoking ban for property overseen by the Kansas City Housing Authority


Youngstown voters again kill anti-fracking charter change

Editorial: Proponents of the charter amendment to ban fracking and other related gas and oil exploration


Lewinsky does Hillary a favor

Opinion: WASHINGTON Monica Lewinsky may not have intended it this way, but she just did Hillary Clinton a


A nod to ‘ceremonial prayer’

Opinion: WASHINGTON After the marshal on Monday spoke the traditional “God save the United States and this


US Senate kills a living wage

Opinion: US Senate kills a living wage The (Toledo) Blade: Predictably but shamefully, the Senate has


Pull out the welcome mat for Boardman landlord registry

Editorial: All American citizens should be entitled to decent, safe and sanitary housing. Most all Boardman


Lower costs of animal farming by reducing the consumption of meat

Opinion: Lower costs of animal farming by reducing the consumption of meat It’s perversely ironic for


Boardman proposal for landlords would hurt many tenants hard

Opinion: Boardman proposal for landlords would hurt many tenants hard I just read the article on


GM’s latest investment a boost for Lordstown assembly plant

Editorial: Let the good times roll and roll and roll at General Motors’ Lordstown assembly complex that’s


Too much is at stake to sit out primary election on Tuesday

Editorial: Sad to say, Tuesday promises to be yet another sleepy election day throughout the Mahoning Valley.


Enactment of the ACA was a farce

Opinion: WASHINGTON If the president wants to witness a refutation of his assertion that the survival of


Don’t let faith trump science

Opinion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Modern Americans have been a skeptical lot about everything from Big


Mere mortals sit on the high court

Opinion: WASHINGTON “We are not final because we are infallible,” Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson


Obama’s power grab must be stopped to save America

Opinion: Obama’s power grab must be stopped to save America I recently saw on Fox News a group of 20