Opinion and Editorial

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Right call on abortion bill

Opinion: Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, Miss.: Good for Hob Bryan. Rather than let a politically popular


Don’t crow about bin Laden

Opinion: We’re far enough away from it now that we can probably all agree: It was a mistake for George W.


A break for Covelli Centre

Opinion: The “I’m Just a Bill” Schoolhouse Rock! segment about how a bill becomes a law makes the process


Public employees get their perks

Opinion: Public employees get their perks It seems as though I read in The Vindicator almost every week


Senate bill serves as flimsy lifesaver for Postal Service

Editorial: On the surface, the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan approval last week of legislation that would halt the


Presidential race will be very close

Opinion: Six months from Sunday, Americans will choose between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. All signs are


Mess in China could yet end well

Opinion: No screenwriter could have dreamed up the saga of the blind Chinese human-rights lawyer Chen


A vacuous presidential campaign

Opinion: WASHINGTON Maybe it’s a hangover — metaphorical, not literal — from the partying of White House


ATV legislation is needed

Opinion: The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.: In March, a 13-year-old operating an ATV with three other children


Judge Douglas’ stellar record should close book on the seat

Editorial: Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. will leave the Youngstown Municipal Court bench on Aug. 1 with an


Under their masks, labor unions ugly

Opinion: Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being


Jon Will has gift of serenity

Opinion: WASHINGTON When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st


SCOPE plans to continue

Opinion: SCOPE plans to continue SCOPE, Inc. of Trumbull Coun- ty has been in the news often in recent


Freedom to fear

Opinion: By Donald Kaul OthersWords Serious commentators are telling us not to assume that the Supreme


Untangling a training mess

Opinion: Untangling a training mess Cincinnati Enquirer: By any reasonable standard, Ohio’s job training