Opinion and Editorial

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High-speed rail plan is a waste

Opinion: Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of


Financial reform sputtering

Opinion: By Bart Chilton McClatchy-Tribune President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget, released a few days


How healthy are Great Lakes?

Opinion: The Grand Rapids Press: The Great Lakes are big. But they’re not bottomless. A just-released


Preserve joy of snow days

Opinion: Preserve joy of snow days Picture this: The contin- uous fall of snowflakes, Jack Frost nipping


Low turnout at Warren event raises questions about citizens

Editorial: SDLqWe can’t get the people involved. All they want to do is complain.” A harsh indictment, indeed,


There are cuts to be made

Opinion: As the Obama administration and Congress battle on how to reduce the $1.6 trillion U.S. budget


Feds must help the states

Opinion: By Bogdan Kipling McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON In the best of times, the federal government


States are liable for deficits

Opinion: By Lynndee Kemmet McClatchy-Tribune GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. Several years of huge and


Health care rulings clash

Opinion: By Michael Smerconish Philadelphia Inquirer I fear that Roy Cohn had a better understanding of


Not a fan of the new governor

Opinion: Not a fan of the new governor You have to love Gov. John Kasich. OK, you don’t have to love him.


Democracy by Internet

Opinion: Democracy by Internet Los Angeles Times: After the revolution in Egypt, it has become a truism


Why isn’t Romney ahead?

Opinion: A year before Republicans pick a 2012 candidate, their presidential outlook remains muddled. Nothing


Wrestling sacred cows

Opinion: WASHINGTON The wrestling room at Graham High School in St. Paris, Ohio, where Jim Jordan, now 47,


Caring Ohioans answering the call to service

Opinion: By Charles Barber Special to The Vindicator At no time in our nation’s history has the presence


Education is key to success

Opinion: By Marifeli Perez-Stable McClatchy Newspapers Is the United States in decline? Twenty-five years