Columns
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Feder: Sun-Times, WBEZ closing in on mergerDec 03, 2021 12:00 am - For a couple of news organizations that demand transparency from everyone else, there's been little of it from the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Public Media, parent com...
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Crime reform is here. Do you feel safer?Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, California is about to have a bumper crop of right-wingers as the social compact is crumbling in the Golden State and beyo...
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The Biden-Buttigieg pitch: It's all free!Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond what is needed to ru...
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Frank, personal 'Stove Toucher' at Buffalo Theatre examines skater kid's past from middle-age perspectiveDec 02, 2021 10:00 am - “Stove Toucher” - ★ ★ ★ If candor makes you uncomfortable, “Stove Toucher,” the new autobiographical play by Kurt Naebig may be too frank for you. A combination coming-...
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Constable: Annoying holiday song also is a quirky financial barometerDec 02, 2021 4:30 am - Always in those conversations about the most annoying holiday song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" also occupies a position as a whimsical financial barometer. Every yea...
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Gonzales: McNamara's switch to football turns out well for MichiganDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - Cade McNamara played varsity baseball as a high school freshman and might have followed in the footsteps of his father, who excelled at Fresno State with former Cubs pla...
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Feder: WBBM Newsradio, Lite FM tie for first-place in Chicago radio ratingsDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM, the Audacy all-news combo, and WLIT 93.9-FM, the iHeartMedia adult contemporary station, tied for first place in the latest Chicago radio rati...
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Fund local journalism to help communitiesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A portion of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) was included in the recent Build Back Better bill that was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The L...
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Transition: From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IIDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - In the last 40 years, I have counseled, represented, supported and cried with thousands of women, many of them students in those criminal law classes, many of them telli...
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Widescreen: Four Oscar contenders you can watch at home right nowDec 01, 2021 10:00 pm - The consensus front-runner for Best Picture at March's Academy Awards - according to online awards authority goldderby.com - is streaming on Netflix right now, and it's ...