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Dear Trump supporters: Maybe you try to understand usMar 24, 2017 1:00 am - The windowsill over my kitchen sink is an altar of sorts, full of small framed photos of our grandchildren and other mementos to keep me grateful. The square ceramic ti...
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Constable: If only elections were like March MadnessMar 23, 2017 5:30 am - Today's news is dominated by more madness spewing from our political pipeline and the welcome distraction of the NCAA basketball tournament's March Madness. So it seems ...
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How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrongMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention,...
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Transgender challengesMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - Determining one's own sex or that of another used to be a simple matter. First, there was the matter of appearance, whether a person looked like a male or looked like a ...
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New Lake Zurich athletic director alert to the challenge after hazing scandalMar 23, 2017 1:00 am - Coffee fends off the desire to sleep only so long, so Andy Lambert's body finally surrendered. It was 2 a.m. and Wauconda's young athletic director sat slumped atop the ...
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Don't let fear keep you from solving problemsMar 22, 2017 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, there was a man adrift in a small, leaky boat. The seas were rough, and it was all the man could do to keep the boat from being swamped. For hours on e...
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Roundabout construction at Bunker, Keslinger will start in 2019Mar 22, 2017 11:00 pm - In November of 2015, Randy Harris of Campton Hills asked the county transportation department if a traffic light could eventually be installed at the Bunker and Keslinge...
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Imrem: Krause a complicated man who deserved much moreMar 22, 2017 11:01 am - Jerry Krause should have been a folk hero in Chicago sports lore. The former Bulls general manager was the kid from Taft High School on the far Northwest Side who grew i...
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As spring settles in. lure of making new fishing memories beckonsMar 22, 2017 10:05 am - Life is an all-encompassing series of markers firmly implanted in the memory lobe of our brains. As we age, some of us have a tendency to trigger those memories and re...
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Deconstruction of a blueberry pie removes the sugar but leaves the indulgenceMar 22, 2017 6:00 am - A from-scratch fruit pie for a once-a-month dinner group get-together wasn't something I would have made until I saw a picture of Rose Levy Beranbaum's (the author of th...