Columns
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North: Time for Chicago Bears to move on without CutlerNov 15, 2016 4:19 am - After eight years of inconsistent football play, I'm hoping the Jay Cutler era with the Chicago Bears is finally coming to an end. The nightmare will be over and the Be...
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Constable: In our red-and-blue state, identifying 'pod people' is trickyNov 15, 2016 4:00 am - "At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town," explains Dr. Miles J. Bennell, the chisel-jawed movie characte...
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New mom's fitness regimen is nobody's business but hersNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Q. Three months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Exactly four days later, while I was still sitting on pillows, my husband's friend came to visit. After congra...
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Lessons from the pastNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Afterthoughts about our new president-elect - and ourselves: Election Day evening, as it slowly, state by state, became obvious that Donald J. Trump was being elected pr...
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Which suburbs' vehicle allowances count toward pensions?Nov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Does your town give its top administrator a vehicle allowance that raises his or her public pension? How much did a two-year Open Meetings Act fight between Grayslake El...
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A triumphant GOP, mired in crisisNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - The Republican Party is everywhere triumphant - House and Senate, executive and legislative, national and state - and yet faces a series of crises. There is a crisis of...
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Rozner: Play by Chicago Cubs' Bryant still top of mindNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - Two weeks have now passed since the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Not sure which is more difficult to believe, that it's been a fortnight already or that the North ...
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Getting excited for Semifinal SaturdayNov 15, 2016 12:00 am - There's something special about the semifinals. Any playoff football win is big, but it's different at this point. Teams are so close, yet so far from the title game. Th...
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Scientists agree there's a fourth dimension of space-timeNov 14, 2016 10:00 pm - "What is the fourth dimension?" asked a camper who attended this summer's Wauconda Area Library STEM program. The fourth dimension is a concept that connects to astronom...
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Start small to figure why your life is unhappyNov 14, 2016 10:00 pm - Carolyn Hax is on leave. This column originally ran on June 17, 2012. Q. I have a bit of an open-ended question. When I'm unhappy, I tend to want to change everything - ...