Columns
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The nation's report cardMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics and geography given in 201...
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Feder: DeRogatis, Waldron win Headline Club's Lifetime Achievement AwardsMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - Jim DeRogatis, the longtime Chicago music critic, crusading reporter, author and broadcaster, and Clarence Waldron, former senior writer and senior editor of Jet Magazin...
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Constable: Drop and give him 20 pushups — through your phone appMay 05, 2020 5:30 am - Leaders need to adapt to the conditions. For Lt. Shalom Klein, platoon leader of more than 50 women and men in the U.S. Army Reserve unit in Arlington Heights, that mean...
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Why sports have strengthened us for these timesMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - It's the tough times that allow us to truly appreciate the good times. It's not easy to write about sports when the games seem a distant memory, except for those played...
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Feder: 'We are fighting Alden now,' Tribune Guild declaresMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - Are the new owners of the Chicago Tribune using the cover of coronavirus to gut the newspaper's staff? That's the word from the union representing editorial employees fo...
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A preview of coming distractionsMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - As you probably already knew, the next six months of 2020 presidential campaigning are going to be ugly. I do not say this happily, but I do so based upon a lifetime of...
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How Congress has changedMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - If you feel like Congress has become less productive, less functional, and more partisan ... you're right. I've been thinking a lot lately about how it's changed over th...
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Rozner: Apparently, it takes brains to be an NFL QBMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - The football geniuses are undoubtedly using this downtime to reinvent the game, designing the groundbreaking schemes of tomorrow. They are getting after it. They are pum...
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Words on Birds: Five avian beauties light up spring migration with their bright plumageMay 04, 2020 6:00 am - Words on Birds: Five avian beauties light up spring migration with their bright plumage
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Need an escape from COVID-19? Go for a driveMay 04, 2020 5:30 am - As the novelty of binge-TV, sourdough starters and cutting one's own hair wears off, a collective COVID-19-induced cabin fever is settling on the region. Is there any es...