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Refinery project is good news

Opinion: Minot (N.D.) Daily News: Construction on the first major oil refinery to be built in the United


Nothing gets made but money

Opinion: There I was last Sunday morning, innocently reading the paper, when the presidential campaign


Judge Hunter’s passion for law should be rewarded by voters

Editorial: Mahoning County Court Judge Scott D. Hunter isn’t given to histrionics or judicial belligerence,


A new judge will be coming to Trumbull’s Eastern District

Editorial: Trumbull County has two county courts, one in Brookfield and one in Cortland. It also has municipal


Paul Ryan’s dishpan hands panned

Opinion: I wasn’t supposed to work last Saturday. But Paul Ryan and MS- NBC changed that. What happened


Obama offers no substance

Opinion: In form, President Obama came back strongly in Tuesday’s debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively


No change, no levy support

Opinion: No change, no levy support I have voted for every school levy, no matter where I have lived in


Mistakes, and meningitis

Opinion: Mistakes, and meningitis Los Angeles Times: The 14 people who died of fungal meningitis after they


Arlen Specter, summed up in his own words

Opinion: When I heard on Sunday that Arlen Specter had died, I sought solace in rummaging through personal


Ditzler has experience, smarts to be Mahoning commissioner

Editorial: Barring a political implosion of monumental proportions, David Ditzler, an 18-year trustee in


Who wins debate that’s tied?

Opinion: When two presidential candidates battle roughly to a tie in a debate, is there a winner? Did


A toast to city flexibility

Opinion: The Free Press, Mankato, Minn.: You have to give credit for creativity and effort. It couldn’t have


Diversity on campus national security issue

Opinion: By Dan Christman, John F. REGNI AND JOHN R. RYAN McClatchy-Tribune To Justice Samuel A. Alito,


Fed can’t do every good thing

Opinion: DALLAS In the 1920s, in the wee small hours of the mornings, employees at the Federal Reserve Bank


Issue 2 violates separation of powers

Opinion: By Shirley J. CHRISTIAN AND JAMES E. “TED” ROBERTS Special to The Vindicator This November,