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Pursue peace, not war, in MideastMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - The current conflict in the Middle East will go down in history as one of the cruelest man-made catastrophe of this century. As of the writing of this article, more than ...
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A stirring of discontent over resorting to a vague descriptionMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - Alexa, cycling through an unending stream of images from my kitchen counter, beckons me to connect with a variety of network television sports content. And I am troubled....
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Things are great, but they’re miserable, tooMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In rereading the opening lines of Charles Dickens' “A Tale of Two Cities,” I had the sense they were written last w...
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Silvy: Stop with the cliches, it’s time for Bears to fully embrace changeMar 28, 2024 5:21 pm - The winds of change are blowing through Halas Hall like those early spring winds off of Lake Michigan. At times it can be cold and cruel. Just ask Justin Fields.
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Estonia’s 20 years in NATO shows value of allianceMar 28, 2024 7:30 am - Twenty years ago, on March 29, 2004, Estonia, along with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO...
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Museum piece: Soldiering on toward an IBCA hall of fameMar 28, 2024 6:00 am - A couple weeks ago we reported on the annual Fox Valley Basketball Reunion retired Batavia boys basketball coach Jim Roberts puts together. In the crowd was Bob Ward, the...
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Our baseball story starts with Wrigley Field’s outfield wallMar 28, 2024 6:00 am - In March 1922, my father arrived in Chicago from Sweden, a month shy of his 20th birthday. He initially stayed with his faster (aunt), and in a letter to his parents he wrote that he was told that he could find every kind of work. All he had to do was choose.
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US Steel-Nippon Steel: A global deal for American prosperityMar 28, 2024 3:15 am - The Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel company recently agreed to be purchased by the Tokyo-headquartered publicly traded company Nippon Steel. This deal makes sense to econom...
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Spring frog chorus: Where you can hear amphibians’ seasonal songMar 27, 2024 11:58 am - Western chorus frogs are singing their spring songs ... and if you live near a marsh or wetland, you might hear them.
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Small business marketers should adopt a spring-cleaning mindsetMar 27, 2024 10:06 am - Small business marketing professionals should think about the concept of the details and spring cleaning. Now is a great time to think about the seemingly small things that can have a big impact on one’s marketing efforts.