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The amazing journey that was 2013

Opinion: I like, when I’m driving around various places, getting lost. I frequently do it in towns around


Make 2014 the year to end probes

Opinion: “U are obsessed” The text came in at 8:51 a.m. Sunday in reaction to the year-end column about


Ousting Foley as police chief in city smacks of cronyism

Opinion: Ousting Foley as police chief in city smacks of cronyism Let’s see, McNally and O’Neill; ain’t it


Latest California scheme is bad for your health

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords In this wicked world of woe, there are hucksters, flimflammers,


McNally takes office at a time of uncertainty in Youngstown

Editorial: Mayor John A. McNally is call- ing on the residents of Youngstown to get involved in the improvement


Fresh rulings, attitudes boost Ohio’s gay-marriage movement

Editorial: Are the stars aligning over Ohio toward legalizing same-sex marriages in the Buckeye State?


On tap: Taxes and elections

Opinion: COLUMBUS Two years ago, Gov. John Kasich broke with tradition and took his annual address to the


Snowden blinded by smugness

Opinion: WASHINGTON Time has not deflated Edward Snowden’s messianic sense of self- importance. Nor has


Black community: Let's rally behind McNally

Opinion: The new mayor, however, could still face a possible federal indictment.


North Dakota will be hopping

Opinion: The Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune: Scanning the possibilities for North Dakota in the coming year suggests


58th District state rep race is intriguing

Opinion: Despite who is endorsed by the Mahoning County Democratic Party to replace state Rep. Robert F.


Congressmen can celebrate while 1.3M jobless must suffer

Opinion: Congressmen can celebrate while 1.3M jobless must suffer Let’s hope our congressmen and women had


Extremists love revolutions

Opinion: By Ben Barber McClatchy-Tribune Around the world, hijacking is in. Ukraine is the latest


Need for extension of benefits to jobless is dire in Ohio, Valley

Editorial: For 1.3 million Americans, the dawn of 2014 is anything but happy. In fact, despair, hopelessness


Be cautious in helping veterans

Opinion: News and Sentinel, Parkersburg, W.Va.: West Virginians and Ohioans revere veterans of military