Opinion and Editorial

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Biggest week ever (for now)

Opinion: We ran into a period a couple of years back when there was a collision of several big events in the


More than one way to dodge taxes

Opinion: More than one way to dodge taxes Not long ago a letter to the editor asserted that Mitt Romney’s


Repeated lie is a political art form

Opinion: By Andrew Fiala Fresno Bee Politicians are adept at exaggeration and obfuscation. They spin the


Obama’s Great Lakes revelation

Editorial: Obama’s Great Lakes revelation We have criticized President Barack Obama in the past for what we


Y’town park and rec system needs a top-to-bottom review

Editorial: The recently publicized evalu- ation of Youngstown government by The PFM Group should serve as a


Audit of program long overdue

Opinion: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.: Since 1996, Mississippi has been selling future college educations at


Hair(less)-raising initiation

Opinion: One of the most hair-raising experience in my octogenarian life occurred when I didn’t have any hair


Higher ed’s future is online

Opinion: By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams McClatchy-Tribune As a teacher at a community college, I welcome


Where are the exotic animals?

Opinion: COLUMBUS So far, state agriculture officials are aware of the locations of one privately owned


Iran’s chief unable to get away from old thinking in U.N. talk

Editorial: Although iran’s president Mah- moud Ahmadinejad’s address to the U.N. General Assembly was less


GOP sweep hurts Romney

Opinion: Republican capture of numerous governorships and legislatures in 2009 and 2010 should be helping GOP


Rove’s ‘money bomb’ ticking

Opinion: Here’s a short list of Democrats who secretly hope Mitt Romney gets his presidential campaign turned


State report cards provide school districts with targets

Editorial: Report card day has tradition- ally been a happy day for some kids and a day of trepidation for


Is the story journalism or PR?

Opinion: By Dick Polman Philadelphia Inquirer George Orwell, a font of wisdom on politics and power, once


2013 mayoral race off to a fast start

Opinion: In Ohio, we’ve been in full campaign mode for several months. We’ve seen thousands of political