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Healh-care model’s fatal flaw

Opinion: Healh-care model’s fatal flaw What do our medically insured people really want? As well as I can


GOP abandons all reason

Opinion: By Dick Polman Philadelphia Inquirer All sanity seems to have left the ranks of those in charge


How the West was built

Opinion: WASHINGTON At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the


The political price

Opinion: By Orson Aguilar McClatchy-Tribune In the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff, many in the


Putin shows his ugly side with cynical attack on children

Editorial: As the end of a year approaches, there are any number of candidates on the international stage vying


Southern Ohio has a stake in Kasich’s turnpike plan too

Opinion: Southern Ohio has a stake in Kasich’s turnpike plan too Ironton Tribune: Anyone who doesn’t pay


Without history, you know nothing

Opinion: By Lewis W. Diuguid Kansas City Star PHILADELPHIA Students step onto college campuses today


A reading ‘guarantee’ is fundamental to success

Editorial: Running a school district is a complicated job, one made no easier by the financial pressures of the


Enforce wild-animals law now

Editorial: Enforce wild-animals law now Now that a federal district court has wisely upheld the


Gun rights aren’t absolute

Opinion: By Richard P. McLAUGHLIN Special to The Vindicator The most recent shooting tragedy in


Worst of the worst In 2012

Opinion: There were loads of bad decisions made by public sector workers and entities in the Mahoning Valley


Healthy, maybe; wasted, for sure

Opinion: Healthy, maybe; wasted, for sure Unless you’re in America’s school cafeterias on a daily basis,


She pays for his bad behavior

Opinion: She pays for his bad behavior Chicago Tribune: Being physically attractive, research has shown,


Old questions for a new year

Opinion: COLUMBUS Gov. John Kasich and other Statehouse Republicans answered lots of questions n 2012.


Senseless snags thwart action to protect against Asian carp

Editorial: Delays in meaningful action to protect the Great Lakes against the invasive Asian carp are dangerous.