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Criminal justice system in Afghanistan fails girl

Editorial: Sahar Gul can be forgiven if her definition of justice is an eye for an eye — a finger nail for a


Embrace area’s new reality

Opinion: I had two reactions when I read earlier this spring that Forbes magazine listed the Youngstown area


Lesson not yet learned: There are no warranties on students

Editorial: Several governors ago, the state of Ohio decreed that by 2001 every fourth-grade student would be


GOP targets poor

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican


What has happened to third parties?

Opinion: Given the strong public dissatisfaction over the country’s direction and the state of its politics,


Your cellphone’s secret life

Opinion: Your cellphone’s secret life Los Angeles Times: Concerned that mobile phone networks are becoming


Cluelessness is not a crime

Opinion: By E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN McClatchy Newspapers The author Michael Lewis (“Moneyball”) popped up on


ACTION earns credit for efforts on behalf of Youngstown students

Opinion: ACTION earns credit for efforts on behalf of Youngstown students Congratulations to AC- TION. As


A twist to judicial selection

Opinion: The Mahoning County Republican Party plans to announce in the next week or two how it will fill the


Note to Congress: Grow up and get to work on student loans

Editorial: There they go again. Those ras- cals on the playground of federal lawmaking that we once proudly


Obama’s call on same-sex marriage

Opinion: WASHINGTON I wrote earlier this week that same-sex marriage had turned into a test of character


The new 2 percenters: Muslims & Mormons

Opinion: By Arsalan Iftikhar McClatchy-Tribune Watch for Mitt Romney to play the anti-Muslim card against


Taxing jobs out of existence

Opinion: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what


Beware of postal ‘experts’

Opinion: Beware of postal ‘experts’ It is disingenuous of a so- called “expert” to express opinions of fact


Taking on debt is a choice

Opinion: It is something of a truism that whenever the federal government steps in, costs usually rise and