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Opinion
Daily Herald opinion: Troubling times: Report highlights disturbing trend on eve of World Press Freedom Day
Daily Herald Opinion: World Press Freedom Day returns Sunday in shadow of troubling report.
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Letters to the Editor
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Let’s live without so much plastic
Letter to the Editor
Apr 30, 2026 11:58 am
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Reading today about how Environment Illinois is finding plastic pellets in area waterways dovetails with a recent article in Audubon Magazine about researchers finding pl...
Community theater is great family fun
Letter to the Editor
Apr 30, 2026 12:01 pm
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Our family, kids and grandkids went to Opera in Focus two weeks ago at the Rolling Meadpws Park District Playhouse on Central Road. Opera in Focus is stick puppets and mu...
The president’s selective gratitude
Letter to the Editor
Apr 30, 2026 11:06 am
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President Trump’s expression of gratitude for law enforcement’s response to his safety at the National Press Club Dinner was proper and well deserved. Why was that gratit...
The source of the fracture
Letter to the Editor
Apr 30, 2026 11:06 am
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Letter writer Charles Danyus asks: “Is today's Hollywood and the mainstream media responsible for much of the fracture in America?” He also asks: “Do you remember when ev...
New hope for saving our republic
Letter to the Editor
Apr 28, 2026 6:39 pm
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The 2024 presidential election revealed that millions of Americans seemed to have paid little heed to the threat that Donald J. Trump posed to America's democracy, specif...
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Managing Editor / Administration & Opinion
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Editor (Ex officio)
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Executive Editor
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City Editor
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