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Guest Column: Americans will have more to spend if gas stays low

Kevin G. Hall January 13, 2015

If oil and gasoline prices remain at their current unusually low levels, Americans will have a lot more to spend on other things.That's the conclusion of the AAA Motor Club, which on Dec. 31 projected...

Contact Albert at afisler@kent.edu.

Opinion: Is capitalism a triumph or a tragedy?

Albert Fisler November 11, 2014

In the past, the world has shared a variety of economic systems — from feudalism, to communism and socialism, to capitalism. In the past century, however, capitalism has expanded across the globe to...

Ray Paoletta is a junior political science major and a columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact him at rpaolet1@kent.edu.

Opinion: Low voter turnout plagues the country

Ray Paoletta September 14, 2014

Another mid-term election is quickly approaching and most candidates have their efforts focused on voter turnout. There isn’t a shortage of citizens complaining about government; however, voter turnout...

Our view: Learning from past, looking to future

KS Editors September 10, 2014

Our generation has grown up on war. War on Iraq. War on drugs. War on terror. We have never known peace.In 2003, Esquire magazine published “The Falling Man,” written by Tom Junod, about the story...

Rachel Godin is a junior journalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.  Contact her at rgodin1@kent.edu.

Opinion: The judicial system’s chance to evolve

Rachel Godin April 1, 2014

Since 1980, the U.S. prison population has grown by 700 percent and now exceeds 2.4 million. According to the Washington Post, the single largest driver in the increase of prison populations since 1998...