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Clarification

Opinion: Clarification A letter that appeared in Monday’s column written by Chuck Johnson regarding


Pope’s visit to Cuba is tainted

Opinion: Pope Benedict XVI’s three-day visit to Cuba began under a cloud Monday: Human rights groups are


Drilling won’t lower gas prices

Opinion: By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang McClatchy-Tribune The drill babies are back, touting Exxon-


Privacy still matters in US

Opinion: By Barbara Shelly McClatchy Newspapers The jury has spoken, and everything about the Rutgers


Youngstown must not allow a replay of scaffolding saga

Editorial: Mayor Charles Sammarone is justifiably cautious about the pledges from the owner of a downtown


Make Republicans welcome here

Opinion: Make Republicans welcome here Speaker John Boehner’s com- ment during a recent visit to Mahoning


Drill, baby, drill in ANWR

Opinion: By Robert L. EHRLICH Jr. Baltimore Sun Sometimes, it is worth our time to step back, to take the


Government becoming more intrusive

Opinion: Are there no limits on government’s power, no place where it cannot go? New York City Mayor


Ohio has too often looked past charter schools’ shortcomings

Editorial: Carl Shye may be one of the worst examples of Ohio’s failure to monitor operations of charter


Keeping an eye on the wells

Opinion: Keeping an eye on the wells Cleveland Plain Dealer: Gov. John Kasich’s administration has


A $116 billion price tag

Opinion: WASHINGTON The most compelling sentences in the Obama administration’s brief defending the


Obamacare has contract problem

Opinion: WASHINGTON The Supreme Court begins three days of oral arguments today concerning possible —


Death with dignity

Opinion: By William A. COLLINS OtherWords You may have missed it amid all this fuss about Catholics and


Who pays for what in Boardman?

Opinion: Who pays for what in Boardman? Back in April, I believe, the Boardman Township trustees voted to


Getting news into The Vindy

Opinion: A member of our cleaning crew came to my office Friday to change the trash bags and asked about an