Columns
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Straight from the Source: An uneasy, but so far calm, life in another former Soviet republicMar 25, 2022 5:15 am - The sun is back and the days are getting longer here in Estonia. However, a new darkness has descended in this part of the world. Of course, I am talking about Ukraine. ...
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Guest columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Public policy, public health and moneyMar 25, 2022 1:00 am - The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has finally raised interest rates. On March 16, the central bank announced interest on reserve funds would be 0.4 percent. Bank cu...
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Feder: MeTV expands 'Svengoolie' franchise with fishy friend 'Sventoonie'Mar 25, 2022 1:00 am - "Svengoolie," the monstrously popular horror movie series starring Chicago treasure Rich Koz, is about to get some company in the form of a talking fish puppet dressed l...
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Jim O'Donnell: How the assassination of JFK changed Krzyzewski coaching careerMar 25, 2022 1:00 am - ON NOV. 19, 1963, two days before he left for his planned five-city tour of Texas, President John F. Kennedy sat in the Oval Office chatting with Evelyn Lincoln, his lon...
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Lincicome: The Cubs new slogan is 'It's Different here.' Here are some more honest options.Mar 25, 2022 1:00 am - While there seems no need to have any, the new marketing slogan for the Cubs is "It's Different Here." Is that so? Other than a once-in-a-century blip, things are pretty...
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Guest columnist Ralph Martire: Gas-tax holiday is not effective way to provide tax reliefMar 25, 2022 1:00 am - Inflation reached 7.9 percent last month, the highest point in 40 years. While many factors contributed to this spike, one in particular has drawn much public attention:...
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DeRozan suffers injury during lost cause vs. BucksMar 24, 2022 2:00 pm - Everything is easier in hindsight, but the Bulls might have been better off passing out rest days on Tuesday against Milwaukee. It was a challenging scenario to begin wi...
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Pitt's hilarious ex-Navy SEAL can't save Bullock's anemic action comedy 'Lost City'Mar 24, 2022 1:00 pm - “The Lost City” - ★ ★ In the squelched action comedy “The Lost City,” Channing Tatum has fun as an inept, panicky wannabe hero, scurrying about and revealing more than w...
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Widescreen: 'Death on the Nile' floats home already, and 'The Batman' isn't far behindMar 24, 2022 6:00 am - Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox — now 20th Century Studios — hasn't been kind to the films left over from the previous regime. Example: Ridley Scott's excellent...
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Neighbors in the News: Maine West junior named to Carnegie Hall music programMar 24, 2022 6:00 am - • Maine West High School junior Sophia Luong was accepted as a member of the Carnegie Hall NYO2 program. The NYO2 tuition-free, summer program is for outstanding young m...