Opinion and Editorial

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‘Use it or lose it’ must be enacted

Opinion: The recent act of generosity by Dr. Cynthia Anderson, retired Youngstown State University president,


Superintendent, state panel own city’s latest report card

Editorial: What do you call five F’s, two D’s and two C’s on a report card? If shameful is too harsh a word,


Canfield Fair’s rich rural roots

Editorial: Hearty bites of deep-fried Twinkies and topsy turvy twists aboard the Zipper ride rank among


Family of child-abuse victim seeks support for ‘Teddy’s Law’

Opinion: Family of child-abuse victim seeks support for ‘Teddy’s Law’ The Teddy Foltz-Tedesco Memorial


Amid the frenzy, high school football season sports value

Editorial: Tradition and excitement run deep in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys each year as August winds its


Will JobsOhio bite GOPers?

Opinion: COLUMBUS Assume, for a moment, that all five Republicans holding statewide office will easily


Less of a commercial bonanza

Opinion: The Gleaner, Henderson, Ky.: August brings the usual heavily promoted back-to-school sales on


We can’t save every big tree

Opinion: Rapid City (S.D.) Journal: Custer State Park officials have said they are going to save the Big Tree


YSU begins a new school year with hope tempered by reality

Editorial: When Randy Dunn was picked earlier this year to serve as the eighth president of Youngstown State


A court’s order: Obey the law

Opinion: WASHINGTON Nowadays the federal government leavens its usual quotient of incompetence with large


House seat attracts attention

Opinion: Several people are giving serious consideration to running next year for an Ohio House seat that


Don’t let yourself get hoodwinked by greedy motives of oil barons

Opinion: Don’t let yourself get hoodwinked by greedy motives of oil barons Let’s be sure of one thing:


War on crime will now need new weapons and initiatives

Editorial: For blacks and Hispanics, they are the weapons of mass destruction because of the damage they’ve


Has ‘the dream’ come true?

Opinion: It was an atypical August summer day in Washington, D.C., 50 years ago next week. Temperatures were


A life-saving practice

Opinion: Johnson City (Tenn.) Press: Buckling up saves lives. Tennessee Department of Safety Commissioner