Opinion Stories from May 18, 2020 (Change date)
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Amid COVID-19, we must solve the growing threat from extreme weatherMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the lives of billions of people around the world. In Illinois alone, nearly 4,000 people have died and more than one m...
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The Middle East history we should have learnedMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - Today, May 15, is Nakba Day in Palestine. It commemorates the "Catastrophe" when roughly 750,000 of 1,900,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland before and a...
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It can be doneMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - I took my first business trip since the lockdown. Monday, May 11. ORD was a breeze: no lines at the kiosk, no lines at security, no lines at Starbucks. Everyone seemed p...
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EPA is abdicating its missionMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - While we all are struggling with the fear, confusion and frustration surrounding the coronavirus, the federal government agency whose mission is to protect human health ...
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Different standards at news conferencesMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - I have been watching the Press Conferences of the President Trump and Gov. Pritzker. The presidential conferences are always contentious every day. For example: "With ov...
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A glimpse of chaosMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - I hope that legislators and citizens pushing for McHenry County to be decoupled from the Northeast Region of Gov. Pritzker's plan to reopen Illinois take note of what's ...
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A tribute to a legendary journalist, personMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - I worked at the Daily Herald for a few years in the late 1980s before I got to know Bob Frisk and he became one of my closest friends. I was new to Chicago's suburbs, di...
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