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There’s more investigating to do in the Sciortino arrest

Editorial: The initial investigation into the apparent OVI traffic stop of Mahoning County Auditor Michael V.


Global clash looms

Opinion: By Bart Chilton McClatchy-Tribune News Service The fiercest fireworks may not have come


Black eye for sheriff’s office

Opinion: The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office has a long-standing reputation for corruption. When you look


Ryan missed a chance in Dayton

Opinion: Ryan missed a chance in Dayton I want to make it very clear that I have been a member of the


The ideals celebrated today are strengthened by reforms to our immigration laws

Editorial: How appropriate it is that on this 237th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of


Remembering how we got here

Opinion: Remembering how we got here As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day this year, we should be


History’s dustbin crowded

Opinion: By Christine M. FLOWERS Philadelphia Daily News It certainly is crowded down here at the bottom


Quest for freedom to marry

Opinion: WASHINGTON Evan Wolfson received a “B” on the law school paper that helped change the world. It


Ohio’s $62 billion budget bill gets into social engineering too

Editorial: The bill that Ohio Gov. John Ka- sich signed Sunday was labeled a budget bill, but it was also a


High court’s divide

Opinion: WASHINGTON Ten years ago to the day, dissenting in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, Justice Antonin


Why worry about US debt?

Opinion: By Alison Acosta Fraser The Heritage Foundation To read the news, you’d think America’s fiscal


What is new standard for marriage?

Opinion: “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they


Quit beating up Paula

Opinion: Quit beating up Paula This media witch hunt (es- pecially TV) against Paula Deen is absurd. She


Unfinished housing demolition merely recycles urban blight

Editorial: By most accounts, the city of Youngstown can take pride in its smashing success in clearing


US inches toward Civil War II

Opinion: Lancaster [Ohio] Eagle-Gazette: Monday marked the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the battle