Opinion and Editorial

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Information sharing crucial

Opinion: By Thomas Fingar and Roger George McClatchy-Tribune The WikiLeaks dissemination of U.S.


Rights of all can be protected through truly public trials

Editorial: For several months a debate has been waged in Mahoning County over whether the public is entitled


AT&T laying claim to ‘person’ status

Opinion: If a corporation is a “person” under the law, does it get the kinds of “personal privacy”


New vs. old heroes

Opinion: When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a child in the South during the 1930s,


A nuclear Iran? Not so fast

Opinion: After years of warning that an Iranian atomic bomb is right around the corner, Israeli officials now


Cracking down on fraud

Opinion: Cracking down on fraud Marietta Times: Apparently, crime does pay when Uncle Sam is the victim.


Some metaphors are loaded

Opinion: Some metaphors are loaded Sometimes we pay a price for free speech, which is rich in metaphors.


Focus on financial reform

Opinion: Seattle Times: “While the financial system is far stronger today than it was a year ago, it is still


Bill of Rights protects everyone

Opinion: Bill of Rights protects everyone While it is true that Jared Lee Loughner purchased a gun and


Citizens United fallout is huge

Opinion: By Robert Weissman McClatchy-Tribune Now that we have suffered through our first post-Citizens


‘Mommy wars’ get brutal

Opinion: By Barbara Shelly McClatchy Newspapers It doesn’t take much to rally the troops in the “mommy


Discretion is advised

Opinion: WASHINGTON Discretionary spending, the part of the federal budget that is not on autopilot and is


U.N. should play bigger role in Haiti

Opinion: Haiti’s humanitarian disaster and its escalating political mess have made it clearer than ever that


Girard reaping the benefits of good management, V&M Star

Editorial: For a decade, Girard’s city gov- ernment has had to bear a very heavy burden: A fiscal oversight


Britain cuts its deficits kindly, gently

Opinion: On the assumption that some version of Great Britain’s fiscal austerity program eventually will show