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Protecting the Chisholm Trail

Opinion: Enid (Okla.) News and Eagle: Drivers traversing down U.S. 81 might be oblivious that the


A doggone story

Opinion: WASHINGTON Confronting conventional wisdom is the columnist’s role, even at the risk of calumny


Assad still strong in Syria

Opinion: By Aram Nerguizian Los Angeles Times After a year of political unrest and thousands of civilian


Pennsylvania wins contest for major Shell investment

Editorial: Not to rain on Chesapeake En- ergy Corp.’s parade in eastern Ohio, but Shell Chemical’s decision to


Violence, tourism are up in Mexico

Opinion: As weird as it seems, despite the daily headlines of gun battles, beheadings and more than 47,000


Romney’s ‘inevitability’ is troubling

Opinion: Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the


Put brakes on fracking now

Opinion: Put brakes on fracking now As a resident of Poland and having grown up in Youngstown [Boardman],


Ohio prisons on the right track

Opinion: Ohio prisons on the right track Toledo Blade: Ohio’s overcrowded prisons are getting a needed


Who knows what Americans want?

Opinion: Who knows what Americans want? I am fed up with the “Party of the affluent” in their zeal to


GOP presidential picture is unclear

Opinion: Rick Santorum deserves credit for his impressive primary victories in Mississippi and Alabama. Newt


High-flying corporate aid

Opinion: WASHINGTON Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence


State auditor is keeping count of who is open and who isn’t

Editorial: Auditor of State Dave Yost is con- cerned, as all auditors are, that local governments are being


Is there a Plan C?

Opinion: President Obama has long been criticized by Republicans for his purportedly inadequate zeal in


‘Caveman caucuses’ overreach

Opinion: Ohio Sen. Nina Turner, a Democrat from Cleveland, was so touched by the concern of her Republican


Not everyone loves the parade

Opinion: Not everyone loves the parade After 5 years of living in Ohio, I finally got to one of the St.