Columns
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Syndicagted columnist Veronique de Rugy: With more tariffs on electric vehicles and an election featuring two pro-tariff presidential candidates on the way, the debate about how best to support and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector is back. Some argue, mistakenly, that the key to protecting American industries and manufacturing jobs is a set of tariffs on industrial imports.May 25, 2024 10:58 am - With more tariffs on electric vehicles and an election featuring two pro-tariff presidential candidates on the way, the debate about how best to support and strengthen th...
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Major League Baseball is killing its best rivalries with its balanced scheduleMay 24, 2024 4:55 pm - It’s getting harder and harder to work up a good, old-fashioned friendly hate in Major League Baseball.
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Could pickleball become a high school sport?May 24, 2024 6:00 am - The pickleball craze hasn’t hit the high schools … yet. Is it coming?
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Backlash: America cools on crazyMay 23, 2024 5:44 pm - The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly aro...
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Barrington’s Loutos mastered the computer science of pitchingMay 23, 2024 3:32 pm - Barrington native Ryan Loutos went from designing a pitching app for the St. Louis Cardinals to being one of their pitchers.
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The Trump trial and 2016 election truthersMay 23, 2024 3:22 pm - Former President Donald Trump and some Republicans famously rejected the results of the 2020 election. Trump called the election rigged. He encouraged the Jan. 6 protest ...
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See that you wear polarized sunglasses while fishingMay 23, 2024 6:00 am - Polarized sunglasses are the best protection you can use to protect your eyes from the harmful rays of the sun, but they also help you see into the water while fishing.
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Leathernecks pay it forward, and get something back in returnMay 23, 2024 6:00 am - The men who played baseball at Western Illinois University in 1974 were, and remain, a tight group. They stay in touch with each other and with their coach, 86-year-old D...
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Five areas of concern about the Bears as we enjoy OTAsMay 23, 2024 6:00 am - Forget organized team activities. OTAs might as well stand for outstanding times abound. I’ve spoken to many Bears employees, and they all say there’s a new excitement at...
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An opportunity for a harmless, abundant diversion from ‘the news’May 23, 2024 4:00 am - I suspect that in a month or so, you will have heard and seen — and perhaps tasted, if you are adventurous — enough of the Brood XIII cicada to last you until its next ap...