Columns
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Are ordinary Americans buying 'Bidenomics'?Sep 22, 2023 1:00 am - As election season approaches, Democrats are touting the economic results of Biden administration policies aimed at improving the lives of working Americans and creating...
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Jump scares: Suburban haunted houses serve up Halloween screams for intrepid fansSep 21, 2023 11:00 pm - For those who prefer Halloween haunts of the terrifying kind, who have a hankering for horror and prefer scares up close and personal, a number of haunted houses open th...
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Neighbors in the news: Murphy honored for support of people with various disabilitiesSep 21, 2023 6:00 am - • State Senate Assistant Majority Leader Laura Murphy (Des Plaines) was presented the 2023 Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities' Champion Award by Josh Evan...
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Sound check: Fluorescents headline Cobra Lounge; plus Prizefighter, Explosions in the SkySep 21, 2023 6:00 am - Eclectic roundup Chicago post-pop-punk band Fluorescents brings its high-energy show to a headlining slot at Cobra Lounge this weekend, joined by the indie pop-rock...
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Words on birds: Climate change may be the reason for rare visits by 'southern birds' like limpkins and spoonbillsSep 21, 2023 6:00 am - You never forget your first limpkin. Mine was at a lakeside trailer park near St. Petersburg, Florida. A book said limpkins would be there and, sure enough, they were. T...
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Golfer Gooch looks to make a move at LIV's Rich Harvest eventSep 21, 2023 1:00 am - The big stars were Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson when the LIV Tour made its Chicago debut at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove last year. No surprise there. Smith was...
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Policies, as in France, that take secularism to point of bigotrySep 21, 2023 1:00 am - France recently banned the wearing of abaya, a long cloak that Muslim girls may wear, and denied hundreds of girls from public school entry. They had done that earlier w...
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A social media era twist on a familiar adage about trustSep 21, 2023 1:00 am - This editorial is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. Newspapers have a variable relationship with social media. Speaking for the Daily Herald,...
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Pulp fiction: Bowing to Trump, the GOP launches a phony impeachment inquirySep 21, 2023 1:00 am - A political gaffe, journalist Michael Kinsley once said, is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Republican Rep. Ken Buck is no doubt drawing fir...
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Best bets: Free Mavis Staples show, dinos in downtown Wheaton, 'Flying Dutchman' at LyricSep 20, 2023 11:00 pm - Chicago Live More than 80 musical, dance and theatrical acts - including Mavis Staples performing at 8 p.m. Saturday - will grace three stages on Navy Pier, 600 E. ...