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Be blunt with friend who can't read social cuesMar 03, 2019 5:00 am - Q. I need some help setting boundaries with a friend who has a hard time reading social cues. She regularly interrupts and talks over me, dominates conversation with sto...
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Dads-to-be must tell bosses, too. But when?Mar 03, 2019 5:00 am - Q: I am in my early 20s and recently accepted a position working for an elected official. However, I did not mention before accepting that I'm expecting to become a fath...
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Buyers lament having no home inspectionMar 03, 2019 5:00 am - Q. When we bought our home, we were on a tight budget, so we did not hire a home inspector. After moving in, we began having electrical problems, so we hired an electric...
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Long-planned COD accelerator nearly readyMar 03, 2019 12:00 am - Some projects just take longer: Remodeling the bathroom. New cabinets for the kitchen. Painting the living room. Wallpaper anyplace. Getting Innovation DuPage's space in...
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Rozner: The irony of the White Sox in free agencyMar 03, 2019 12:00 am - No good deed goes unpunished. That might just be what Rick Hahn is thinking after the White Sox GM made a run at Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, only to see half a billi...
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Trump again accepts a dictator's lies on faithMar 03, 2019 12:00 am - If he were alive today, Mark Twain might say the following: "There's lies, damned lies - and Donald Trump." The president of the United States not only lies routinely, b...
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America's bitter polarization exacts a price on our credibility abroadMar 03, 2019 12:00 am - It appears that President Donald Trump decided that a bad deal with North Korea was worse than no deal, a reasonable conclusion that suggests he and his team were approa...
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When a parent loses a child, or a child loses a parentMar 02, 2019 6:30 am - My only connection with death as a child is that I lost my dear grandfather Anderson when I was only 12. It shocked me and made me very sad. I guess we children knew he...
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Insuring mixed-use condo buildingsMar 02, 2019 6:00 am - Q. Your recent article on mixed-use properties hit home. The building in our Northwest suburban association has retail property on the first floor that is not part of th...
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Many CEOS are cautious about Twitter, but not Elon MuskMar 02, 2019 5:05 am - It's an understatement to say that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tweeting is different from perhaps any other public company CEO. He responds off-the-cuff to journalists and ran...