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Termite inspections are routinely required for home saleDec 08, 2019 5:00 am - Q. A friend told me the law requires a termite inspection when you sell a home. Now that I'm preparing to put my house on the market, I need to know if this is true. Als...
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30 years after Cold War ends, NATO still has important roleDec 08, 2019 12:00 am - A friend from Malta reminded me the other day that we have just passed the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Malta Summit that signaled the end of the Cold War. This was the ...
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O'Donnell: DePaul's dream of going unbeaten dies hard in 74-69 lossDec 08, 2019 12:00 am - If Frederick Nietzsche covered DePaul men's basketball, he'd probably write it off to the eternal recurrence of the same. If the Grateful Dead had played halftime of the...
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Amid impeachment distraction, DeVos transforming educationDec 08, 2019 12:00 am - Impeach! Impeach! Impeach! Removing Donald Trump from office before he can get re-elected is the only thing in Washington that Democrats and the national media really ca...
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Unit owners are not always peopleDec 07, 2019 6:00 am - Q: Each board member for our condominium association must be a unit owner. One of the current board members is an investor in a limited liability company that owns many ...
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Using a fireplace without creating a smoky roomDec 07, 2019 5:00 am - Q: We had many trees taken down due to ash borers, so I plan to use my fireplace more this fall and winter. I have never had much luck building fires without smoking up ...
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Grief: It's the holidays — who's cooking?Dec 07, 2019 5:00 am - Here we are in the midst of holiday season, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year is certainly the intensive “party, cooking and eating” time of the year. By the ...
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Grammar Moses: Disbanding club is an apostrophe catastropheDec 07, 2019 12:00 am - That creeping sense of dread you're feeling? No, I'm not talking about climate change, the potential impeachment vote or the notion that my opening question was merely a...
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Facts Matter: Post office won't deliver Christmas cards addressed to 'any soldier'Dec 07, 2019 12:00 am - A social media post asking users to send an extra Christmas card to injured American soldiers has been flagged as false information by Facebook, according to PolitiFact....
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Illinois spent $8.5 billion to cut its pension debt. It wasn't enough.Dec 07, 2019 12:00 am - Trying to get pension funding back on track, state officials designated $8.5 billion last year to five state-funded retirement systems. It wasn't enough, and the pension...