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Legacy: City and state working together to reduce crime

Editorial: Witnesses said Jamail Johnson died trying to defuse an explosive situation during a party at a


Obama undermines US allies

Opinion: While everyone’s attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about


US students lagging behind

Opinion: By Anne Michaud Newsday In these days of tiger-mother hysteria about raising children with


Don’t layoff, reduce hours

Opinion: By Mark Weisbrot McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON As President Obama begins the second half of his


This one is Egypt’s to lose

Opinion: WASHINGTON Sixty years ago, American politics was embittered by an accusation couched as a


Lebanon, not Egypt, may hold key to Middle East democracy

Opinion: Despite the media’s recent focus on Egypt, events in Lebanon may well tell us more about the troubled prospects for Middle Eastern democracy.


Fighting the battle of the bulge

Opinion: Fighting the battle of the bulge Miami Herald: If the government’s latest guidelines for how to


State workers will have to pay for changes to retirement funds

Editorial: Hearing the chairman of the House Committee on Health and Aging discuss what will be done to prop


Egypt’s ‘loss’ isn’t ordained

Opinion: There’s the tendency in some quarters to sow panic about what will happen in Egypt if Hosni Mubarak


Immigration is in our nation’s DNA

Opinion: By Angela Trudell Vasquez McClatchy-Tribune In times of economic discontent, immigrants have


Some hate America, yet they stay

Opinion: Some hate America, yet they stay Recently I stopped in an Arab owned store to do some grocery


Boss was too tied up in football

Opinion: Boss was too tied up in football I read a story on Vindy.com about football politics: an employee


Lack of transparency is disturbing

Opinion: As a member of the legislature, and someone who has held office for 30 years, I feel it is my civic


Owners find that old buildings come with strings attached

Editorial: What is one to do with an old building? That’s a question being asked throughout the Mahoning


Take on usurpers

Opinion: WASHINGTON The serious news, such as it was, out of President Obama’s remarks at the National