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There’s been ample time to deliberate new START treaty

Editorial: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pushing the Senate to move forward on several major


Watch teen drivers

Opinion: By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams McClatchy-Tribune This holiday season, parents must be especially


Closing schools is a safety issue

Opinion: Closing schools is a safety issue I do not reside in the city of Youngstown, however I find it


Race into space pays off

Opinion: Race into space pays off Kansas City Star: The Obama administration’s idea of contracting with the


Obama’s liberal problem

Opinion: For months, anxious Democrats have been asking why Barack Obama couldn’t be more like Bill Clinton,


Pakistan’s leader must ensure safety of government watchdog

Editorial: So long as Pakistan depends on foreign aid for its economic survival, the country’s leaders must


Obama facing long war

Opinion: WASHINGTON Once when the French statesman Duc de Richelieu (1766-1822) was planning a military


Obamacare suffers setback

Opinion: The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also


A healthier future for kids

Opinion: By Tom Vilsack McClatchy-Tribune There are few things that should be more important to America


Victims of bullying have somewhere to turn for support

Opinion: Victims of bullying have somewhere to turn for support A disturbing number of re- ports are


Don’t play around picking toys

Opinion: Don’t play around picking toys The Marietta Times: It’s that time of the year when parents and


DeLay violated trust

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords For once, I actually agree with something that Tom DeLay said. The


Try your hand at cutting the federal budget

Opinion: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission, tried mightily


Failure isn’t an option in getting tax bill through House

Editorial: The U.S. Senate saw the closest thing to a filibuster that it’s seen in years when Sen. Bernie


US should prepare for cyberattack

Opinion: WikiLeaks has awakened Americans to the concept of “cyberwar.” “Cyberanarchists” are attacking the