Columns
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Feder: Nexstar CEO fiddles with morning show while NewsNation burnsMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - NewsNation went from bad to worse this week after Jennifer Lyons followed her top two lieutenants out the door at the Chicago-based cable news network they built from sc...
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Immigration reform changed my life. But there are still 11 million immigrants in the shadows.Mar 09, 2021 10:00 pm - Within hours of inauguration, President Biden proposed a sweeping set of reforms to U.S. immigration laws, including a plan to allow immigrants in the country unlawfully...
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Constable: When pandemic gets tough, we reach for thisMar 09, 2021 4:30 am - Today marks 365 days since I last sat down with people, shared a conversation that ended with handshakes and went back to the busy newsroom to crank out their story in m...
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Rozner: A way to honor the legacy of Bob FriskMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - It seems as if there are few certainties anymore. Perhaps it always feels that way, every passing year a bullet train in a world more cynical, that there are fewer peopl...
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Vaccines are the way forward out of the pandemicMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - Vaccines are the most effective public health intervention in human history. Our world is far better because of them. If we wish to resume the lives that we had before t...
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Earmarks expose self-serving politicians, distract us from bigger problemsMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - By Veronique de Rugy A fight is brewing over bringing back earmarks - provisions that are inserted into spending bills by individual members of Congress to send money to...
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Palmer Cup coming June 11 to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar GroveMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - Jerry Rich, the owner of Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, arrived in Florida last week while the Arnold Palmer Invitational was in progress in Orlando and he's already...
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Feder: Former Channel 9 exec Lyons resigns from NewsNationMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - Jennifer Lyons, the eminent Chicago TV news executive who segued from WGN-Channel 9 last year to launch a primetime cable news operation for parent company Nexstar Media...
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Feder: NBC 5 boss David Doebler to retireMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - There's a change coming to the C-suite at Chicago's NBC Tower, Robert Feder writes. David Doebler announced today he plans to retire as president and general manager of ...
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Area's most prolific birder writes daily report fellow watchers loveMar 08, 2021 10:00 pm - We are all creatures of habit. But to describe the daily routine of Al Stokie as habitual would be selling him short. It's much more: curiosity, discipline and obsession...