Columns
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Facts Matter: Queen's death brings out conspiracy theoriesSep 17, 2022 1:00 am - Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom, died Sept. 8 after nearly seven decades on the throne. After her death, conspiracy theories about the monarch went viral on so...
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Spotlight: Elgin's Janus Theatre puts a new spin on an epic taleSep 16, 2022 6:00 am - Come to the 'Cabaret' In 1929 Berlin, against the backdrop of the rising tide of Nazism, an American writer falls in love with a British chanteuse in John Kander and Fre...
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'I go where I am needed': Batavia Chamber of Commerce honors volunteer Mary Anne CallahanSep 16, 2022 6:00 am - If there were a mantra for what makes a community volunteer click, it would simply be this: "I go where I am needed." That's what Mary Anne Callahan of Batavia told me w...
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Quiz yourself to test your cycling knowledgeSep 16, 2022 6:00 am - This milestone column, No. 50, calls for something a little different. Four years retired from teaching math, I still value quizzes. Let's see who's been paying attentio...
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Geneva man convicted of killing his wife says judge got it all wrong. This could take awhile.Sep 16, 2022 5:00 am - Shadwick King is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5 for the 2014 murder of his wife, Kathleen, in Geneva. But before that can happen, Kane County Judge John Barsanti will ...
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Lincicome: LIV golf is for the greedy, the ungrateful and the inadequateSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - To the surprise of some, mostly me, the Hybrid Greed Golf Tour, has made it here, reasonably sturdy and irritatingly ominous; that is to say, it has not gone away as I p...
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O'Donnell: The September "in" crowd begins with Carlos Alcaraz plus the Bears and Miguel CairoSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG AND GREEN DAY wanted to be awakened when September ends. For better or worse, in the sports media racket, that's not always possible. So, with the ...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Stop the twitterverse, I want to get offSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - Everyone hates Twitter. Twitter users hate Twitter. I hate Twitter, and I've posted nearly 65,000 tweets and retweets. Republicans and Democrats hate Twitter - which tel...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: The Democrats' filibuster schemeSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - By Byron York Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pretaped interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harris said...
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Leading lady's star turn more than makes up for Marriott's mechanical glitches in 'Hello, Dolly!'Sep 15, 2022 11:00 pm - “Hello, Dolly!” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The road to opening night isn't always smooth. Take Marriott Theatre's jolly revival of “Hello, Dolly!” whose opening was delayed two weeks aft...