Columns
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JD Vance and the bipartisan itch to tax behaviorAug 06, 2024 4:00 am - Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has been in the news for an old clip of him talking about how the tax code should punish adults without kids. While Vance's ...
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Free as a bird: In retirement, columnist plans to travel in hopes of new sightingsAug 05, 2024 11:52 am - Words on Birds columnist Jeff Reiter recently retired from his day job and looks forward to traveling and new sightings of birds.
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Shrinking Supreme Court’s jurisdiction may be easier, quicker route to reformAug 04, 2024 2:20 pm - President Biden’s proposed reforms for the Supreme Court are unlikely to pass. But the Constitution already provides a simple solution that would help to restore the bala...
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Facts Matter: Clips not related to Olympic torch lightingAug 04, 2024 6:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that a clip spread on social media was a scene from the Olympics torch-lighting, the Cartoon Network is shutting down and more.
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Fifty years later, what great minds’ predictions teach usAug 04, 2024 4:00 am - What will America and the world be like in 50 years — in August 2074? Will we be driving flying cars? Have we cured cancer? Do people live on the moon? Will the world be ...
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Team Kamala says she’s tough on the border, but what’s her history?Aug 04, 2024 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:
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About the Games, not to mention the games, and the people who play themAug 03, 2024 12:42 pm - Some things you suspect, some things you guess and some things you just know. All those socks, all those years, that got lost in all those driers have shown up as the Par...
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Jim O’Donnell: Thayer delivers moving ad-lib tribute to ‘Mongo’ on AM-1000Aug 03, 2024 10:00 am - THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME WEEKEND in Canton was intended to serve in part as tribute to Steve McMichael — almost elegiac in tone — and it was. The storm-shortened...
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Big Ten expansion doesn’t end the era of change in college sportsAug 03, 2024 6:00 am - USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon officially joined the Big Ten on Thursday, meaning the formerly Midwestern conference now stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Tha...
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Which area high school football teams have the toughest schedule?Aug 02, 2024 6:00 am - As our countdown to the IHSA prep football season continues, this week we’re looking at the area’s four toughest schedules.