Opinion and Editorial

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Debt ceiling impasse is troubling

Opinion: Since the onset of World War II, Congress has voted more than once a year to increase the legal


THOMAS SOWELL | The Trump Card

Opinion: THOMAS SOWELL The Trump Card The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for


Atlas endured

Opinion: Chicago Tribune: She was a militant atheist who favored abortion rights and thought Ronald Reagan


Ryan’s Medicaid idea is dangerous

Opinion: From Barack Obama down, Democrats are worrying about the wrong part of the 2012 budget blueprint


Teachers have a key role in recovery of city schools

Editorial: When Youngstown city schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn unveiled his ambitious plan to revitalize


A wake-up call for the Republicans

Opinion: The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for president of the United States ought to be


Everybody has to make cuts

Opinion: Everybody has to make cuts Administrators of Poland schools claim they have no choice but to ask


A grab for power

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords In American politics, the past not only sticks with us, but it often


Looking for a money tree

Opinion: WASHINGTON Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of


Canfield schools earned support

Opinion: Canfield schools earned support I would like to express my support for the Canfield Local School


Getting gambling right

Opinion: Getting gambling right Cincinnati Enquirer: A big campaign theme last fall for Republican


No deal for ‘The Donald’

Opinion: WASHINGTON There’s a reason presidents go gray. The job is difficult. The pressures unrelenting.


Gas prices can bring economies and political careers to a stop

Editorial: With gasoline prices flirting with $4 per gallon in Northeast Ohio and nearly $5 in California,


BP oil spill in the Gulf may be forgotten, but it’s not gone

Opinion: By Charles Wohlforth Los Angeles Times From April into midsummer last year, Americans watched


Dearborn taps Sharia law

Opinion: The RINO (reverend in name only) Terry Jones is like his fellow RINO, Fred Phelps, but in political