Opinion and Editorial

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No to Frankenfish

Opinion: Ketchikan Daily News: Why do people so often want to “improve” something that’s already working just


Youngstown schools’ budget must be handled with care

Editorial: Six months after he was ap- pointed superintendent of the Youngstown City School District, Dr.


Gender revolution missing

Opinion: By Khaled Diab Institute for War & Peace Reporting JERUSALEM In the early days of the Egyptian


OAS is a needed basket case

Opinion: The 34-country Organization of American States is better known for its cocktail parties than for its


It’s all about Wall Street

Opinion: By Richard Parker McClatchy-Tribune Here we go again. The debt ceiling debacle that is


As the deadline approaches, everything’s on the table

Editorial: He couldn’t speak much more emphatically: “Congress consistently brings the government to the edge


Amazon’s shameful tax dodge

Opinion: At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons’ first gilded age lingered on, many


Using the ‘Murdoch excuse’

Opinion: When I first read that media mogul Rupert Murdoch had closed down his sensationalist British tabloid


Critical funding for vulnerable lives

Opinion: By James Mandell and O. MARION BURTON McClatchy-Tribune Every day in Washington, in the halls


Doomsday doubters and the debt-ceiling debate

Opinion: President Barack Obama says that if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, the


US, Pakistan: needy partners

Opinion: US, Pakistan: needy partners Akron Beacon Journal: Will Pakistan respond well to White House


Boardman Township’s addiction

Opinion: Boardman Township’s addiction Aug. 2, Boardman Township will once again ask the taxpayers to dig


What’s the best use of racetrack?

Opinion: If the plan to build a $200 million horse-racing facility in Austintown becomes a reality, it will


First rule for politicians: Listen

Opinion: First rule for politicians: Listen News flash to Democrats: The Republican Party is not going to


Mahoning government gets its financial act together — sort of

Opinion: When Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains explained the hefty pay raises he was giving his staff at