Opinion Stories from April 2, 2018 (Change date)
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A memory of the day that Dr. King died: Dare to make a differenceApr 03, 2018 6:45 pm - It has been 50 years since an assassin's bullet took the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I vividly remember that day. I was a 15-year-old boy in Birmingham, ...
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Editorial: We all must work to complete Dr. King's dreamApr 03, 2018 5:34 pm - "I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ...
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Publicity ployApr 03, 2018 4:23 pm - According to the Daily Herald, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has announced her intent to sue Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. This is after, citing ...
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Madigan builds power from ground up ... and sometimes from the basementApr 02, 2018 12:39 pm - At first it didn't seem to make sense. There were no obvious signs of a polling place, even though it was Primary Election Day. I was in the 44th precinct of Chicago's 1...
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Novel ideas to address school shootingsApr 03, 2018 4:23 pm - Last week a school superintendent in Northeast Pennsylvania suggested schools place buckets of rocks in their classroom to ward off intruders. I thought this was the mos...
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Public employee unions and the Supreme CourtApr 03, 2018 4:23 pm - The U.S. Supreme Court will be ruling soon whether a public employee's individual rights are violated by being forced to join a union or at least pay a fair share so tha...
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Charter schools hurt public schoolsApr 03, 2018 4:23 pm - On CBS 60 Minutes (Sunday, March 11), Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has never visited an underperforming school, could not explain why the performan...
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The ABCs of political polarizationApr 02, 2018 1:00 am - Talk to each other, people! Oh, you're a gun person? You must not care about school shootings. Oh, you want gun control? You must want to take everyone's guns and you d...
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Abortion bans don't workApr 03, 2018 4:23 pm - Most of us are having the wrong conversation about abortion. We focus on whether or not it is murder, whether or not it is morally/ethically wrong, and whether or not it...
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