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There wasn’t much doubt about the value of colonoscopies, the rather invasive screening tests for colorectal cancer. Now there should be none. These screenings, unpleasa...

March 15, 2012 Other Voices

Good arguments on both sides of tax-preparer issue

The Internal Revenue Service, tossing aside the principle of “let the buyer beware,” is drawing up regulations establishing licensing requirements for hundreds of thousa...

March 15, 2012 Our Opinion

The double-edged health care debate

There’s a seeming paradox in the way Americans view the health care law that President Barack Obama and the Democrats passed two years ago this month. Most people tell p...

March 15, 2012 Other Voices

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The West must no longer tolerate the wanton slaughter occurring in Syria under dictator Bashar Assad. His consistent targeting of noncombatants and Arab Spring protester...

March 14, 2012 Other Voices

Learn from Mass. health care experiment

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken considerable heat during the Republican primaries for the health care legislation that passed while he was in office. Sad...

March 14, 2012 Other Voices

Premiums buy health care, not sex

More than plenty of opinion has been expressed about the revolting comments made last week by the talk-radio blowhard best described by Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “...

March 13, 2012 Other Voices

State's emissions testing does need to be tested

The vehicles of Butler County motorists currently are not required to undergo an annual emissions inspection as part of the annual state inspection process. Perhaps some...

March 13, 2012 Other Voices

JOBS Act

A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives just passed a bundle of laws its proponents have disingenuously labeled the “JOBS Act.” The JOBS Act won’t create j...

March 13, 2012 Letters to the Editor

Japan's lost decades — and also ours?

WASHINGTON — Since the financial crisis, a shadow has hovered over the U.S. economy: Japan. Could what happened there happen to us? The bursting of Japan’s real estate a...

March 12, 2012 Other Voices

SR erred in not immediately issuing alert about incident

All of the reasons why a 10-year-old Moraine Elementary School pupil decided to bring a pellet gun to school on March 1 might never be known. But Slippery Rock district ...

March 12, 2012 Our Opinion

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