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Guest view: Protests are opportunity to make a more just societyJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - By Vaseem Iftekhar The last few months have been the most challenging period in recent American history. The COVID -19 pandemic shook society with more than 100,000 deat...
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Feder: WGN Radio weighing afternoon comeback for Garry MeierJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - It's been more than five years since Garry Meier was replaced by Roe Conn as afternoon personality at news/talk WGN 720-AM. Now Meier, 70, may be on his way to reclaimin...
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Feder: WIND's Amy Jacobson wins battle to cover Pritzker news conferencesJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - In what supporters are hailing as a victory for press freedom, Amy Jacobson has won her battle to attend Governor J.B. Pritzker's media briefings as a journalist, Robert...
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Saunders: Academic freedom takes a hit in war for social justiceJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - In the war for social justice, academic freedom is an early casualty. Consider the plight of UCLA accounting professor Gordon Klein. A student sent Klein an email, scree...
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Rozner: The next baseball fight is the one to fearJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - Through all the baseball strikes and lockouts over the last 40 years, there has been one constant. It's that when the rhetoric gets the loudest, when the players and own...
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Feder: NBC 5 to stick with Michelle Relerford as solo weekend anchorJun 15, 2020 1:00 am - Don't look for WMAQ-Channel 5 to replace the late Dick Johnson as weekend news anchor at the NBC-owned station any time soon, Robert Feder writes. That's the official wo...
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Looking for truths, comfort in 'the gospel of this moment'Jun 15, 2020 1:00 am - I retired from the classroom two months before the pandemic hit. Just in time to avoid the overnight shift to teaching online but not the sense of being trapped in the p...
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Rozner: Revisiting the Sammy Sosa years unappealingJun 15, 2020 1:00 am - The question is a familiar one. "Didn't you watch this already?" says my wife or one of my girls. Almost always, the answer is, "Yes." But it not always in query form. O...
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Sales Moves: Is there really a new normal?Jun 15, 2020 1:00 am - I am a language junkie and pay close attention to the way those around me craft their thoughts into sentences. I look for patterns of speech and streams of consciousness...
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Wanted: Servers who can lift 100 pounds. Working life in the coronavirus economy is changing.Jun 14, 2020 6:12 am - As states reopened after coronavirus lockdowns, millions of Americans returned to work in May. Many found their hours were cut, their pay was reduced, and their job desc...