Opinion and Editorial

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A danger to peace in Mideast

Opinion: JERUSALEM When Hagit Ofran woke up Tuesday — within days of the 16th anniversary of the murder of


Stop torturing OSU

Opinion: Stop torturing OSU Cleveland Plain Dealer: The torturous drip, drip, drip continues as the NCAA


Protect Alaska’s Arctic

Opinion: By Lance Dickie Seattle Times The nasty storm out of the Bering Sea that pounded Alaska’s


Fracking oversight needed

Opinion: Fracking oversight needed (Toledo) Blade: Gov. John Kasich extols the energy and economic-growth


Will Republicans blow it?

Opinion: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of


The right of citizens to videotape police

Opinion: By Jonathan Turley Los Angeles Times Twenty years ago, as Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles


Commissioners should adopt ‘no’ as the rule on the budget

Editorial: There should be no misunder- standing about the attitude of private sector taxpayers when it comes


Poverty rate is no surprise

Opinion: Poverty rate is no surprise I am thoroughly disappoint- ed at the response generated by the


Drug war moves to Central America

Opinion: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica While Mexico’s bloody war against the drug cartels is making headlines


The more adoptions, the better

Opinion: By Akilah Bolden-Monifa McClatchy-Tribune November is National Adoption Month, a good occasion


Should Israel attack Iran?

Opinion: JERUSALEM Last spring, Israel’s former spy chief, Meir Dagan, said bombing Iran would be “a stupid


Pawlenty could have contended

Opinion: By Byron York Newspaper Enterprise Association DES MOINES, IOWA This could have been Tim


What are Kasich’s priorities?

Opinion: What are Kasich’s priorities? When Gov. Kasich was at the Spread Eagle Tavern recently, do you


Man, oh, man, girls are beating boys

Opinion: By Daniel Akst Newsday The latest round of test results are in for America’s shoolchildren, this


There is a right to hold a sign; pitching a tent isn’t the same

Editorial: Youngstown has avoided the worst of the “occupy” movements that has been seen in some other areas.