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Smoking ban too intrusive

Opinion: Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News: It’s getting harder all the time to figure out where conservatism


Yemma beats political odds

Opinion: I certainly made a wrong prediction as to who would win the Mahoning County treasurer appointment.


Uncertainty suffocating the economy

Opinion: By E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN McClatchy Newspapers The economic recovery is two years old this month.


Don’t cut Head Start funds

Opinion: By Marian Wright Edelman OtherWords The colors were brighter than any she had seen before.


Feds should move quickly on the Antonini plea deal

Editorial: Given that federal prosecutors have not identified the businessman who slipped $3,000 in cash to


Is Perry running for president?

Opinion: Gov. Rick Perry added an intriguing factor to the confusing Republican presidential race by saying


Do’s, don’ts of a sex scandal

Opinion: By Mark Washburn McClatchy Newspapers Thank you, gentlemen, for attending this seminar titled


Are entire agencies needless?

Opinion: Minot (N.D.) Daily News: Included in President Barack Obama’s plan to lessen the cost of government


Public and private are different

Opinion: Public and private are different In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Wagner Act,


Obama bowing to labor, again

Opinion: WASHINGTON Because government is inherently dangerous and often mischievous, the Constitution’s


Afghan peace at what cost?

Opinion: By Mina Habib Institute for War & Peace Reporting KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan women’s groups are


Poland, Champion, McDonald enjoy wet, wild championships

Editorial: Spring 2011 in the Mahoning Val- ley will go down in the history books as one of the soggiest in


When liberty was on trial

Opinion: By Scott Martelle Los Angeles Times On the first Monday morning of June 1951, the U.S. Supreme


Jobless lack political clout

Opinion: By Robert B. REICH Los Angeles Times Jobs are slowly coming back, but that’s small comfort to


Stabilize Afghanistan to prop up Pakistan

Opinion: President Obama has pledged to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan next month, with a