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Yellen is right pick for The Fed

Opinion: Los Angeles Times: Congress has spent much of the last three years stumbling about like a traveler


Common Core splits the GOP

Opinion: COLUMBUS The last thing Statehouse Republicans need right now is another wedge issue to further


Should Ohio OK death penalty to punish repeat child rapists?

Editorial: The brutality of child rape and its devastating short- and long-term impact on its innocent victims


When liberals became scolds

Opinion: “Ex-Marine Asks Soviet Citizenship” — Washington Post headline, Nov. 1, 1959 (concerning a Lee


Threatened demise of MYCAP should concern the community

Editorial: In 2011, when the ohio Depart- ment of Education demanded reimbursement of hundreds of thousands of


Nonprofit journalism falling short

Opinion: By Edward Wasserman The Miami Herald As the head of a journalism school I have a strong, and


Obama’s Solomonic riddle

Opinion: WASHINGTON In summer 2011, as the debt ceiling loomed, Barack Obama saw his predicament in


Mayoral race hinges on probe

Opinion: All indications are the investigation into sexual harassment claims made by Lyndsey Hughes, a city


Stop the insanity in Congress

Opinion: Newark (Ohio) Advocate: We’re amazed even 10 percent of Americans approve of Congress. We’ve lost


What boom times?

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords The Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle called economics “the dismal


Republican governors break the cycle

Opinion: With frustration building over Washington’s refusal to behave in the public interest, perhaps it’s


Respect Ohio’s elders, restore their property-tax reductions

Editorial: American culture has long revered and respected its elders. It rightly does so for their seasoned


Watch out for deer

Opinion: The Madison (Ind.) Courier: The roads of rural Indiana and Kentucky have their share of traffic


Government could care less about the American people

Opinion: Government could care less about the American people On Sept. 22, I was reading about the so-


Two SEALS raids in Africa show America’s might, reach

Editorial: Terrorist leaders around the world have probably gone to ground in the wake of Saturday’s capture by