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When Donny met Kim

Opinion: By Blair Bess Cagle Cartoons The president’s bad breakup with Canadian Prime Minister Justin


Republicans must stop Democrats from pulling another Kavanaugh

Opinion: By Ann Coulter Andrews McMeel Syndication It’s time to update the GOP’s Marquess of Queensbury


Next CEO of Y’town schools must not give in to pressure

Editorial: If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a dozen times: The state of Ohio did not want to take over the


Vote ‘no’ on state Issue 1 to preserve drug courts

Opinion: Vote ‘no’ on state Issue 1 to preserve drug courts Proponents of state Issue 1 believe that Ohio


Renacci goes dumpster diving

Opinion: It would be blasphemous to refer to Congressman James Renacci’s personal attack on U.S. Sen. Sherrod


Valley needs Ryan, Johnson in Congress more than ever

Editorial: Between the two of them, congressmen Tim Ryan and Bill Johnson have 24 years in the House of


Children traumatized out of sight

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords In June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own


Greed and grievance are now the new bywords in the United States

Opinion: By Georgie Anne Geyer Andrews McMeel Syndication WASHINGTON Like many Americans struck by the


Need for church ‘Ladies Day’

Opinion: By Danny Tyree Cagle Cartoons As I type these words, my wife is eagerly anticipating the annual


In search of answers for stretch-limousine tragedy

Editorial: A horrific tragedy of errors seeped in irony played out in an idyllic country setting of upstate New


Small nuke is still a nuke

Opinion: By Olivia Alperstein OtherWords On Sept. 26, the global community celebrated International Day


Trump goes full Trump in yet another rally in Pennsylvania

Opinion: By John L. MICEK Cagle Cartoons ERIE, Pa. With his second U.S. Supreme Court confirmation in


Valley authorities exhibit teamwork, expertise in response to fouled streams

Editorial: One of the most visible trends of the administration of President Donald J. Trump over the past 20


Trump’s trolling clashes with the ‘constitution of knowledge’

Opinion: WASHINGTON On the road again, and full of indignation about, or perhaps admiration for, what he


Trump should not send an extremist to the UN

Editorial: Although Nikki Haley, the soon-to-be-gone U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, more often than not