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Blacks, Hispanics hurting when it comes to median wealth

Opinion: By Lewis Diuguid McClatchy Newspapers The Great Recession with soaring unemployment and plunging


Coming to grips with the dangers of distracted driving

Editorial: In the legal battle over whether killing someone with a car while texting or talking on a cellphone


Moving on trade agreements

Opinion: Moving on trade agreements Kansas City Star: On his Midwest bus tour, President Barack Obama


School choice in Colorado

Opinion: CASTLE ROCK, Colo. The red stone outcropping that gives this community its name is just a facet of


We’re better off when risk is richly rewarded

Opinion: By E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN McClatchy Newspapers Warren Buffett caused quite with a recent New York


Firing a Campbell water worker wasn’t in city’s best interest

Opinion: Firing a Campbell water worker wasn’t in city’s best interest I read with astonishment and


Feeding frenzy

Opinion: Feeding frenzy Open up wide and prepare to be fed the next president of the United States. Why?


It’s a Greatest feeling ...

Opinion: I had the chance last week to feature the 100th anniversary of golf at Youngstown Country Club. In


Support all American workers

Opinion: Support all American workers How serious are Ohio’s fire- men, policemen, teachers and others who


YSU prez mugs the faculty

Opinion: Make no mistake about it, the president of Youngstown State University, Dr. Cynthia Anderson, is the


A new look at both sides

Opinion: While Googling for the origin of “there are two sides to every story,” I was introduced (maybe


We can’t discard an 11-year-old

Editorial: We can’t discard an 11-year-old There is an age at which a child might be held fully responsible


Youngstown school system improves — albeit slightly

Editorial: The academic collapse of the Youngstown City School District did not occur overnight, which means


Free speech rights

Opinion: Omaha World-Herald: Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning was right on the money, so to speak, with


Election reform in spotlight

Opinion: COLUMBUS Democrats are again pounding the pavement statewide looking for people willing to sign