Columns
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Who had the area’s top prep football performances in Week 14?Dec 03, 2024 6:00 am - This week’s High Five celebrates the area’s top prep football performances from championship weekend.
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Is power of the law still relevant in cabinet decisions?Dec 03, 2024 4:00 am - When I served overseas, I occasionally told the story to my foreign contacts of former Sen. John Tower, the first Republican U.S. senator elected from Texas since Reconst...
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The water of lifeDec 03, 2024 4:00 am - My wife and I just bought a house. The house we sold is in a city, just a three-minute drive from District Court. If you beat the murder rap, you can walk to my house in ...
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New chapters: Biking books serve up armchair adventuresDec 01, 2024 4:00 am - Inclement weather keeping you indoors? Recent biking books, co-reviewed with others, serve up armchair adventures and thoughts on safety as potential stocking stuffers for yourself and others.
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Ending ‘suicidal empathy’Dec 01, 2024 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:
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Rooting for Middle Eastern peace, but not betting on itDec 01, 2024 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel:
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Jim O’Donnell: Even with Eberflus gone, new book attempts to detail ‘McCaskeyism’Nov 30, 2024 10:00 am - IT'S A GREAT TIME to be a Bears fan in much the same way it's a marvelous weekend to still have a Harris/Walz campaign sign on the front lawn. An incomplete head coach no...
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The Bears have moved on from Eberflus, but does it really matter who the next coach is?Nov 30, 2024 10:00 am - The assumption is always that the next coach will be better than the last one, otherwise why bother? In the case of the Bears, truth is a cruel recap, the line of fools s...
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Buckle up for some IHSA football title game predictionsNov 29, 2024 6:00 am - It’s that time of year again as we offer predictions for this weekend’s IHSA football championship games.
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This ‘fix’ would harm humane farmingNov 29, 2024 4:00 am - At Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm, we’re keeping close watch on deliberations on the federal Farm Bill. It’s important that policy does not undermine the kind of agricultu...