Columns
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Economic outlook: What to expect in 2025Jan 12, 2025 4:37 am - In the stock market, what goes up doesn’t necessarily need to come back down. While some of history’s most popular sayings are thrown around to simplify complex topics, they shouldn’t always be applied universally.
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Perception of madness is a risky foundation for foreign policyJan 12, 2025 4:00 am - During the 1968 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Richard Nixon confided to H.R. Haldeman his idea to end the war in Vietnam, an exchange Haldeman, soon to be N...
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Bears Film Study: This season was a tough watch, but here are best players of 2024Jan 11, 2025 3:14 pm - With a disappointing season complete, Bears Film Study pores through the evidence and ranks the team’s 25 best players of 2024.
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The routine of the rule of lawJan 11, 2025 2:45 pm - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The rule of law triumphed, routinely, on Jan. 6. Imagine how different it might have been had the results of the election been different.
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Beware the latest TV gimmick: indoor golfJan 11, 2025 10:00 am - I have not seen everything, but I have seen indoor golf and I shrug. Indoor golf is usually found on cruise ships and in sports bars. Now it is a TV gimmick, like poker a...
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Jim O’Donnell: Freeman, Irish need a chunk o’ Northern Illinois at the CFP title gameJan 11, 2025 10:00 am - EVERYTHING'S COMING UP IRISH for Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. Still, that shamrock quake leaves no one backing off fro...
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Remembering Frank Johnson: Longtime Geneva fire chief oversaw major transitions in departmentJan 10, 2025 6:00 am - Frank Johnson, Geneva's fire chief from 1980-1996, oversaw the department's transition from a volunteer force to a professional one with paid staff and new stations.
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Quite a bowl season for the area’s college football playersJan 10, 2025 5:29 am - From the Salute to Veterans Bowl to the College Football Playoff, it’s been quite a bowl season for our local football players.
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Evidence points to Supreme Court as enemy of democracyJan 10, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel:
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Will fiscal responsibility now become the cornerstone of economic policy?Jan 10, 2025 4:00 am - The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past. Still, realities from previous administrations remain, such as a fiscal...