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Budget controls, consolidations can improve college affordabilityNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Many people believe America's higher education model is broken. They point, with justification, to the high cost of tuition, the resulting large loan balances students g...
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Feder: Jennifer Lyons to keynote Chicago JournalistsNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Jennifer Lyons, president and general manager of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 and formerly one of Chicago's preeminent news executives, has been chosen as keynote speaker fo...
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Moser, Krutwig move on, but Loyola aims to show staying powerNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Porter Moser is the new head coach at Oklahoma. Cameron Krutwig is playing professional basketball in Belgium. Those are two major losses for Loyola, but the Ramblers ar...
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Protect yourself when buying a new homeNov 07, 2021 7:00 am - Q: The new home we're buying will be completed next month. We want a professional home inspector to do the final inspection before I move in, but the builder says, "No w...
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Good News Sunday: Majority-white Arlington Heights church welcomes first Black pastorNov 07, 2021 5:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: After 23 years of Lutheran ministry in p...
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Facts Matter: Images purporting to refute global warming don't hold waterNov 07, 2021 4:30 am - Side-by-side images of the Statue of Liberty are being shared on social media along with a claim the sea level hasn't risen in 100 years. "This is what catastrophic sea-...
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Grammar Moses: Red herrings, necessary verbs and treating people as fractionsNov 07, 2021 4:30 am - This is not a treatise on the horrible Three-fifths Compromise that determined during the Constitutional Convention that slaves should be counted as 60% of a person for ...
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How Democrats lost in Virginia - and may lose again in 2022Nov 07, 2021 1:00 am - When you tell people that something they see right before them does not exist, you lose their vote. That's what Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe did as he campaigned fo...
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Extremism, nostalgia, sports - the dwindling acts of faith in AmericaNov 07, 2021 1:00 am - Some habits are hard to break. Smoking. Drinking. Drugs. Some habits, once broken, are hard to pick up again. Voting. Going to church on Sunday. Reading a daily newspape...
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Hub Arkush: In must-win game, will Bears open playbook for Justin Fields?Nov 07, 2021 12:00 am - To say their meeting with the Steelers in Pittsburgh on Monday night is a must-win for the Bears, if they harbor any hopes of salvaging their 2021 season, is a study in ...