Opinion Stories from September 2, 2021
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Want to learn about a community? Read the obituaries
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - Months after joining the Daily Herald's southern Illinois editorial staff as group editor in 2016, I was still puzzling over something I frequently saw in obituaries. In obits from Harrisburg, Benton, Goreville, Shawneetown and other small rural cities ground down by several generations of economic depression, memorial donations are often directed to "family choice," instead of a church or charity. I finally called one of the funeral home people I'd come to know in Chester, a pretty community on the Mississippi River and the hometown of Popeye creator Elzie Segar. Segar was a newspaper cartoonist who left Chester for Chicago when he was 20, and worked at the Chicago Herald (no relation) and the Chicago Evening American before he moved to King Features Syndicate in New York. There, in 1919, he dreamed up the strip Thimble Theatre, with characters like Olive Oyl and Harold Hamgravy. It was the precursor to "Popeye," who wasn't invented until 1929, when one of Segar's Thimble Theatre regulars needed a sailor to pilot his boat. -
Anti-vaxxers hold us backSep 2, 2021 4:37 PM - A Mount Prospect letter to the editor: I find it totally amazing that all these people who don't want to get the shot are claiming that you're hitting on their freedoms.
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Unfair retirement cutsSep 2, 2021 4:37 PM - A Schaumburg letter to the editor: I am a retired federal employee who loses $500 per month from my earned Social Security benefit.
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A result of incompetenceSep 2, 2021 4:37 PM - A Hoffman Estates letter to the editor: Involuntary manslaughter is unintentional killing. We just witnessed involuntary manslaughter in Afghanistan due to incompetent leadership.
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On editing, censorship and sobriety in writingSep 2, 2021 11:53 AM - Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: When we think about freedom of speech, it sometimes becomes important to discuss the difference between editing and censorship.
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Editorial: Agency's creative proposal to buy hotel to help the homeless deserves consideration
Sep 2, 2021 1:00 AM - In this editorial, the Daily Herald says officials should consider DuPagePads' proposal to buy a Downers Grove hotel and transform the building into an interim housing center for people experiencing homelessness. -
DACA's fragility undermines the future of immigrant children: we need permanent immigration reform
Sep 2, 2021 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Kevin Sampson: Since its founding, America has been a country of immigrants. -
Today's Opinion Page editorial cartoon
Sep 2, 2021 1:00 AM - Today's Daily Herald Opinion page editorial cartoon
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