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Holmes: Facts vs. fear in legalization debateMay 19, 2019 1:00 am - The debate over legalizing, taxing and regulating cannabis features facts on one side and fear on the other. Let's start with the facts: Legalization has clear public su...
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Establishing habits and routine may help with griefMay 18, 2019 7:40 am - Personal habits can be soothing in coping with grief, especially long-term grief. "Good" habits of course! Many or all aspects of life change when we lose a close lov...
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Associations should consider adopting energy policiesMay 18, 2019 7:00 am - Green, environmentally friendly, alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly popular with unit owners in associations. As such, this will update what I wrote he...
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It is possible to coordinate sale, purchase of homesMay 18, 2019 6:00 am - Q. Please give me an idea of how to coordinate the sale of my present home with the move-in date for my new home. We have a tentative date of August for the new house's ...
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Rozner: White Sox, Hahn have not lost faith in processMay 18, 2019 1:00 am - The question isn't really about what the White Sox did wrong. It's more along the lines of, who did they anger? The baseball gods have displayed their repeated wrath ove...
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Facts Matter: Truth on tariffs, T-shirts and quotes proves elusiveMay 18, 2019 1:00 am - "So our country can take in $120 billion a year in tariffs, paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us," Trump said at the White House earlier this month. "It's rea...
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Grammar Moses: Do brand names date us?May 18, 2019 1:00 am - Last week's column on the genericization of such brand names as "Kleenex" and "Frisbee" stirred the passions of many readers. Former English major Stephen Smart was amon...
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Constable: New charity gives Des Plaines mom the furniture she needsMay 18, 2019 1:00 am - Wandering the aisles of the vast Chicago Furniture Bank showroom, 28-year-old single mother Trayhanda Starling is free to pick out any bed, sofa, love seat, arm chair, d...
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New lawsuits raise question of who should pay homebuyer's agentMay 17, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - The long knives are out again for one of American real estate's oldest and most controversial traditions: requiring home sellers to pay the agents who repre...
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Fact-based 'Trial by Jury' offers cautionary tale about justice systemMay 17, 2019 6:00 am - “Trial by Fire” - ★ ★ ½ British actor Jack O'Connell makes no concessions when playing a man charged with burning his three little daughters to death in Edward Zwi...