Columns
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Where was Lloyd?Jan 11, 2024 12:24 pm - It is exactly what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III did not want. Clearly, he didn't want anyone to know that he, like millions of American men, had been diagnosed with...
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Populist politicians aren't so divided on economic issues, and that's bad newsJan 11, 2024 12:10 pm - The political landscape is often portrayed as deeply polarized. The two sides, it is said, can't agree on anything. Even worse, if one side supports a position, that's re...
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‘Killers’ and Hollywood’s White Savior SyndromeJan 11, 2024 9:06 am - Martin Scorsese’s critically lauded box office hit “Killers of the Flower Moon” begins streaming globally on Apple TV+ on Friday. This daring, unsparing historical drama ...
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All right, let’s talk about the weather ... and how we cover itJan 11, 2024 9:04 am - “Ah, the weather,” a famous saying begins. “Everyone always talks about it but no one ever does anything about it.” Of course, the humor in that remark lies in the fact t...
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‘It’s a big deal for us’: Hawk Invite highlights the girls wrestling boomJan 11, 2024 6:15 am - The rise of girls high school wrestling is no longer a surprise. But it is a big deal. One of the biggest deals in Illinois is Hoffman Estates’ Girls Hawk Invitational, a...
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Jim O'Donnell: Poles, Harbaugh, Getsy, Kimmel, Rodgers — NFL dominates the media weekJan 11, 2024 6:00 am - AT LEAST A SLUMBERING SPORTS AMERICA knows how to stay cocooned. Two significant foreign conflicts, disruptive winter weather and the final days until the 2024 Iowa p...
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Dead center: On America's right and on its left, a certain madnessJan 10, 2024 5:55 pm - "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for...
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Neighbors in the News: Tri-Merit accountant named to ‘100 Most Influential People’ listJan 10, 2024 1:00 am - • Randy Crabtree, co-founder of Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals, Schaumburg, was named to Accounting Today’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in Accounting....
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Big Media's Partisan Rush to Defend Ex-Harvard PresidentJan 09, 2024 2:39 pm - If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the "liberal Washington Post." The newspaper's Thursday story on the resignati...
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Our inevitably negative politicsJan 09, 2024 9:31 am - To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament "the fact th...