Columns
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Meet the winner of the 'great sandwich search'Jan 29, 2017 5:00 am - The “Great Deli Sandwich Search” got plenty of responses in the past two weeks, and in this unscientific research we're strictly going with the place that triggered the ...
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Mixing family, faiths can be rewardingJan 29, 2017 5:00 am - While I'm away, readers give the advice. On mixing faiths in marriage: My wife and I of 40 years of marriage, she a Presbyterian and I a Buddhist, simply live with each ...
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Social Security: A tale of two menusJan 29, 2017 12:00 am - Editor's note: This is Scott Burns' final column. He is retiring after 40 years of writing a personal finance column. Recent columns brought lots of reader mail. The col...
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The importance of the Gosnell caseJan 29, 2017 12:00 am - "You can't unlearn," Ann McElhinney insists, referring to what she and her husband, Phelim McAleer, write about in their new book, "Gosnell: The Untold Story of America'...
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Geneva baker caters to specialty needsJan 29, 2017 12:00 am - When Ilene Keivel, owner of Sweet Natalie's in Geneva, lost 40 pounds on a gluten-free diet, she believed that gluten-free foods were good for her health. But gluten-fre...
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Use video to boost social media marketingJan 29, 2017 12:00 am - Sue Kirchner says we probably don't need to rethink the social media we use - assuming, of course, the social media that are part of our individual marketing strategies ...
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Fentanyl, latest drug of choice, adds to death tollJan 28, 2017 1:00 pm - Fentanyl. It was described by a suburban coroner as "heroin on steroids." And despite the scores of stories we're done in the past few years on the increase in deaths by...
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Adding amendments to meet new lawsJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - Q. You recently wrote about all the amendments to the Condominium Property Act that went into effect on Jan. 1. In doing some research, it's come to the attention of the...
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Another needed remedy for weaknesses in the home loan marketJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - With a new administration in Washington, the time is ripe to reconsider some fundamental features of our housing finance system. In recent articles, I focused on three w...
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Older couple prefers renting, and that's OKJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - Q. We are 63 and 68 years old and still working. We sold our home and relocated across the country a couple of years ago for our current jobs. We are renting a house and...