Columns
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NYC Democratic candidate mirrors Trump's campaign strategyJul 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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Trump didn’t close the bordersJul 20, 2025 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that President Donald Trump closed the borders to the U.S., a dolphin saved a snow leopard, sunscreen causes cancer and more.
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O’Donnell: Gone too soon, Teinowitz leaves a colorful legacy on Chicago sports sceneJul 19, 2025 10:48 am - THEY WILL BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY for Harry Teinowitz in Wilmette Monday. The 64-year-old cross-quipper will be celebrated at a service scheduled for the Weinstein & Piser F...
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Lincicome: This term is the definition of baseball ridiculousnessJul 19, 2025 10:00 am - “Cockamamie” is not a baseball term, although sabermetrics may yet get around to it. Let’s call it CAM, and make a place for it there beside VORP and WHIP; you know, righ...
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Intoxicating hemp remains unregulated in Illinois following legislative inactionJul 19, 2025 4:00 am - Illinois lawmakers have failed to reach consensus on regulating intoxicating hemp products over the past three years, causing uncertainty for the state's hemp industry and friction with the legal cannabis industry.
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Economic mobility top priority of Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaignJul 19, 2025 4:00 am - Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi wants to address economic issues in his campaign for U.S. Senate.
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WNBA officiating is no longer an annoyance. It’s a threat to the gameJul 18, 2025 10:00 am - The WNBA should change its logo to a bruise. Forget that little silhouette of a woman rising for a shot; just use Caitlin Clark’s arm or a leg with a purple discoloration. It’s more fitting. Or Kelsey Plum’s. Or Napheesa Collier’s.
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Depravity Denial: On sexual violence, progressives make an Israel exceptionJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: If the mass slaughter of Israelis dancing or in their beds wasn't enough to penetrate the moral conscience of self-identifying progressives, and it wasn't, the earnestly credulous among us might have imagined that the barbaric sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli females might have moved those who claimed, you know, to support women. But no.
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Message, not money, is Democrats’ problemJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Protecting Medicaid: A lifeline for many IllinoisansJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Anna Moeller: President Trump's budget bill will severely cut Medicaid, risking coverage for 330,000 state residents and closure of rural hospitals.