Columns
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25 years and counting: What makes Wasco Diamond girls' fastpitch softball a winning programJul 23, 2021 6:00 am - Many local youth sports programs do what they were designed to do — give kids a place to have fun and exercise, learn how to play a game properly and experience how team...
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How a St. Charles officer's quick actions saved a shooting victim's lifeJul 23, 2021 5:30 am - By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas cops crime@dailyherald.com St. Charles patrol officer Steve Mattas was about halfway through his midnight shift June 27 when a bu...
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Milwaukee's magical NBA championship something to celebrateJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - By all accounts, local and otherwise, we have just witnessed the "greatest moment in Milwaukee sports history." Lucky us. Luckier them. This is a boast best not shouted ...
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Jim O'Donnell: WaPo's Sally Jenkins working OT to spotlight treachery of the OlympicsJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - SPORTS COLUMNISTS SELDOM win Pulitzer Prizes. And a female sports columnist? Ain't never been done. But the inspired Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post could be in the...
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Hedge funds are killing the newsroomJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - If Hollywood wanted to make a gritty movie about the work of dig-it-out newspaper reporters who uncover big local stories of government doings and corporate misdeeds, it...
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Feder: Chicago City Hall reporter Bill Cameron to retire from WLS RadioJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - Bill Cameron, who's reported on every Chicago mayor since Richard J. Daley, has announced his retirement as dean of the City Hall press corps, Robert Feder reports. “Hal...
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Don't miss this chance for a real partnership to rebuild our local infrastructureJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - There's an old joke about Chicago's weather. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything about it. The same could be said about our federal government's appro...
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The 2020 polling disasterJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - As the last presidential election approached, one could sense that something was wrong with the polls. The race felt tighter than the polls indicated, and specifically, ...
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Avoiding bias, oversimplification in reporting on masks, vaccines and other controversiesJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - At the Daily Herald, like most other conscientious news organizations, we make great efforts to report news stories, and especially news stories about controversial topi...
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Gonzales: Andrew Vaughn has plenty of value for White Sox, even when Eloy Jimenez returnsJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - Andrew Vaughn wasn't basking over his 77.2 percent contact rate, nor was he fretting over a recent 1-for-17 slump. "I'm not a numbers guy at all," Vaughn said Tuesday. "...