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Can’t Obama and Romney talk real solutions?

Opinion: Four years ago, Sarah Palin had the sassy sound bites and the kind of family melodrama that attracts


Socialism isn’t coming; it’s here

Opinion: Socialism isn’t coming; it’s here While mortally grave but at the same time sidesplittingly


Advice to Youngstown council: Rethink charter-vote plans

Editorial: Is participatory democracy dead in Youngstown? That’s a legitimate question the 11 members of the


Some targets are obvious

Editorial: Some targets are obvious The news that Youngstown is going to lose more than $1.5 million next


Supreme Court issued a strained opinion and damaged its stature

Opinion: The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowly upholding the most crucial feature of the Patient


Anti-crime battle needs new weapon

Opinion: As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time answering questions from officious customs and


Back to the grind ...

Opinion: ... back from vacation, and what a time. I’ll feature the Ireland trip next Sunday as it was a


Ohio House must finish pension reform in state

Opinion: Thanks to an extraordinary bipartisan effort, the Ohio Senate has completed work on legislation to


Letter carriers should stick to a schedule — or risk getting bit

Opinion: Letter carriers should stick to a schedule — or risk getting bit My dog and I went out on our


Another mass killer prepares for mayhem under the radar

Editorial: A high school. A university cam- pus. An Army base. A shopping mall. And now a theater. What they


The game: What’s ‘gambling,’ what isn’t?

Opinion: COLUMBUS There was a telling moment at the racing commission this month on the state of legalized


The day that changed world forever

Opinion: As an 88-year-old U.S. Navy combat veteran of World War II, every August since 1945 brings back


Paranoia in the House

Opinion: Paranoia in th House Los Angeles Times: In the 1950s, Sen. Joe McCarthy and other paranoid anti-


Israel at cultural crossroad

Opinion: JERUSALEM The issue convulsing this country, and splintering its governing coalition, is not a


Craft beers boom in US

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords And now, for some happy talk — by which I mean a noncorporate,