Columns
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Rushed pension reform will hurt businesses, residentsJun 09, 2024 5:39 am - Last month, the Illinois General Assembly passed a $53.1 billion budget, the state’s largest ever and $400 million higher than Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed for in February. ...
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Pritzker sidelines Illinois in Biden’s long nuclear playJun 08, 2024 2:45 pm - Guest columnists Madison Hilly and Alan Medsker: On May 31, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm called for the construction of hundreds of large nuclear reactors in a speech at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. With the completion of two new AP1000 reactors, Vogtle 3 and 4, the site is now the largest source of clean energy in America.
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The GOP cynicism on border policyJun 08, 2024 2:30 pm - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: When Donald Trump told Republicans to kill the bipartisan immigration bill — even though its primary author was conservative GOP Senator James Lankford — many Republicans argued that the bill was unnecessary because President Biden had it within his power to fix the border by himself.
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In basketball, nastiness will only get you so far, as the Sky is learningJun 08, 2024 12:57 pm - Being hated and being feared are not the same, even though they can be. Winning is usually the way to join them together. Right now the Chicago Sky is only half way there...
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Jim O'Donnell: Reinsdorf, Warren, the Bears, the Sky and even the FireJun 08, 2024 12:16 pm - SUNDAY, SUNDAY — can't trust that day. Especially when casting a net around the Chicago sports dam in search of free-floating items that need some angling. A baited s...
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Different rooms: The reality of loss, the possibility of healing and the gift that love itself never recedesJun 08, 2024 12:00 pm - Guest columnist John Lampinen: In the May issue of The Atlantic, political pundit David Frum writes exquisitely about his efforts to cope with the unexpected death in February of his 32-year-old daughter Miranda.
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Player development a part of the game in which Cubs, White Sox still have a lot to proveJun 08, 2024 6:30 am - If only the Cubs and White Sox could develop their young players as fast as a cicada’s life span.
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Why state froze rate for towns’ share of income taxesJun 07, 2024 11:35 pm - Over the past few years, the state has increased the percentage of income tax revenue it shares with municipalities, but that’s not going to happen when the new fiscal year begins in July.
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Examining ‘responsibility’ in the new Illinois state budgetJun 07, 2024 4:00 pm - Illinois’ FY 2025 General Fund budget passed last week on a purely partisan basis. No Republicans supported the $53.1 billion spending plan. Predictably, Democrats extoll...
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Is double elimination an answer for IHSA baseball, softball?Jun 07, 2024 6:00 am - Is a double-elimination format the answer for the IHSA baseball and softball finals?