Opinion Stories from January 4, 2017 (Change date)
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Weary of GOP cries of failures of the ACAJan 04, 2017 11:05 pm - I am weary of the venomous outcries by Republicans of the supposed miserable failure of the Affordable Care Act. A bit of history is in order. A predecessor idea to the...
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Elephants are still headed for extinctionJan 04, 2017 11:05 pm - Elephants are heading toward extinction. The ivory trade provides poachers with a huge financial incentive to kill them for their tusks. Rich big game "hunters" still ar...
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Editorial: In the outrageous Facebook beating, let's stay focused on what makes us outragedJan 05, 2017 4:02 pm - Perhaps the most important question for us as a society in the wake of the, yes, sickening beating of a mentally disabled man by four people who showed the crime on Face...
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How Debbie Reynolds and 'Singin' in the Rain' have brightened my lifeJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - You can't be sad or cynical watching "Singin' in the Rain." I dare you to even try. Those rich Technicolor hues; those dashing jawlines and cherubic smiles; the wry chor...
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To live as if we are lovedJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - Many of us have a traumatic childhood memory of losing our mother's hand in a grocery or department store and feeling, for a panicky moment, that we may never be found a...
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Calm, steady leadershipJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - The grinches of Christmas that supposedly represent us in Washington and Springfield have cast shadows over our homes. With that in mind I was pleased to read the articl...
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Today's Opinion Page editorial cartoonJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - Today's Opinion Page editorial cartoon ...
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McHugh, Patterson, Stein and Swanson for Wauconda District 118Mar 12, 2017 8:27 am - Five candidates are vying for four seats on the Wauconda District 118 school board. Four incumbents - Carey McHugh, Sam Stein, David Patterson, and Brian Swanson - are r...
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Electoral college overrides popular voteJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - Our Founding Fathers were brilliant, as they foresaw the concentration of population in some states over others as something to account for in the Constitution. The fina...
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