Opinion and Editorial

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GOP Medicare plan is DOA

Opinion: By Rep. JOHN CONYERS Jr. McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON Medicare is arguably one of the nation’s


Crime summit gives residents a platform to voice grievances

Editorial: While St. Dominic Church on Youngstown’s South Side will again be the setting for a discussion


Call Speaker Boehner’s bluff

Opinion: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: John Boehner probably isn’t serious about his threats to hold up passage


‘Pakistan problem’ undermines progress in Afghanistan

Opinion: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan As the war grinds toward its endgame, and administration officials debate


Let’s reset ties with Americas

Opinion: The announced departure of Arturo Valenzuela, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of Latin American


Questioning logic of camp closing

Opinion: Questioning logic of camp closing Girl Scouts of North East Ohio is planning on closing and


US should deport bad guys

Opinion: By Lee Baca Los Angeles Times Consider the following case: In January, a local police agency


Does divorce affect life span of kids?

Opinion: By Daniel Akst Newsday Does divorce kill? That’s the chilling question raised by the Terman


Critics’ claims of job-killing legislation ring hollow

Opinion: By Donald Cohen Los Angeles Times Since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce has published


Calif. must just say no to greed of unions

Opinion: SACRAMENTO In 1967, five years after California became the most populous state, novelist Wallace


Obama provides a sobering starting point for future talks

Editorial: President Barack Obama’s state- ment last week suggesting that Israel should somehow be bound to its


Keep US government out of the workings of the economy

Opinion: By Charles G. Koch McClatchy Newspapers My brother, David, and I have long supported the


Proud to be an American

Opinion: Proud to be an American I find myself wanting to ex- press how proud I am to be an American and


Shades of Custer’s last stand is seen in US fiscal debacle

Opinion: Of all the pundits who have written about America’s current fiscal mess, Tim Rutten has said it


Keep spending in check

Opinion: Keep spending in check Harrisburg Patriot-News: There is nothing magic or sacred about $27.3