Columns
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Tax the rich or discipline the government?Mar 18, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy:
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The inexplicable warMar 18, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing there?
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Playing for Team USA shouldn’t bring so many potential pitfallsMar 17, 2026 9:42 pm - While the United States faced Venezuela for the WBC championship on Tuesday, it’s worth asking if the national team sideshows can come to an end.
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Bring spring indoors with flowering branchesMar 17, 2026 11:04 am - This is a great time of year for pruning — my favorite gardening task — and for bringing branches inside to flower in your home.
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No one disclosed old wiringMar 17, 2026 10:55 am - Our home was built in 1946 and has a serious electrical problem. The previous owner left the old knob-and-tube wiring as-is, and this was never disclosed by our home inspector or the seller.
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O’Donnell: Eight winners, no waiting — stirring the NCAA men's melting potMar 17, 2026 10:50 am - Columnist Jim O’Donnell writes about the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
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Pizza empireMar 17, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: For me, the shining promise of America always meant not just the dry dust of the Constitution, but the increase in the varieties of frozen pizza during my lifetime.
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Bombs for Iran, aid and comfort for RussiaMar 17, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel:
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Who had the area’s top prep basketball performances last week?Mar 16, 2026 3:15 pm - High Five: This edition looks at the area’s top boys basketball performances from last week.
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All-star from Hinsdale among top scorers in Division III hockeyMar 15, 2026 4:18 pm - Amy Laskowski, a Hinsdale Central High School graduate who plays hockey at Nazareth University in New York, was named the United College Hockey Conference player of the year for a second straight season.