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It’s time to abolish the debt ceiling

Opinion: By Philip G. JOYCE and ROY T. MEYERS Baltimore Sun The announcement that House Speaker John


Youngstown board worked with fiscal commission on its budget

Opinion: Youngstown board worked with fiscal commission on its budget In response to the Vindicator’s Dec.


Making a ‘B’ line to the cliff

Opinion: WASHINGTON Blame John Boehner. Feel sorry for Boehner, sure — he is a decent man, a willing


What about the agonized loners?

Opinion: One spring, when my son Michael was 6, we heard the shrieks of a baby rabbit outside. I went out and


Saying farewell to an old friend

Opinion: Saying farewell to an old friend She was my friend, my walk- ing partner, my defender, my dog. I


The spirit of Christmas is one of strength and renewal

Editorial: Christmas has become so wrapped in tissue paper and ribbon, so dominated by commercialism, so


Give a gift that matters

Opinion: Quick, what did you give or receive last year? How about two years ago? Most of us can’t remember,


In ‘God’s waiting room’

Opinion: By Stephen B. AWALT Baltimore Sun Here they are, the greatest generation, looking pretty


The First Christmas

Editorial: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the


Christmas is about birth of a child and a caring family

Opinion: My father drove a 1966 Colony Park station wagon. It was the first new car my family ever owned.


Yes, Virginia

Editorial: EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York


Bringing light into the darkest month

Opinion: By Jennifer Wheary Newsday After superstorm Sandy and the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary,


Longing for spirit of Santa

Opinion: I’m not sure when I stopped believing in Santa Claus the individual, but it was well before I first


Nitro’s Law deserved better treatment in General Assembly

Editorial: Nitro’s Law would have seemed to be a bill that would sail through the Ohio General Assembly in days


Music of the soul

Opinion: By Partha Banerjee McClatchy-Tribune We need to give proper credit to Ravi Shankar, the Indian