Columns
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All right, let’s talk about the weather ... and how we cover itJan 11, 2024 9:04 am - “Ah, the weather,” a famous saying begins. “Everyone always talks about it but no one ever does anything about it.” Of course, the humor in that remark lies in the fact t...
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‘It’s a big deal for us’: Hawk Invite highlights the girls wrestling boomJan 11, 2024 6:15 am - The rise of girls high school wrestling is no longer a surprise. But it is a big deal. One of the biggest deals in Illinois is Hoffman Estates’ Girls Hawk Invitational, a...
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Jim O'Donnell: Poles, Harbaugh, Getsy, Kimmel, Rodgers — NFL dominates the media weekJan 11, 2024 6:00 am - AT LEAST A SLUMBERING SPORTS AMERICA knows how to stay cocooned. Two significant foreign conflicts, disruptive winter weather and the final days until the 2024 Iowa p...
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Dead center: On America's right and on its left, a certain madnessJan 10, 2024 5:55 pm - "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for...
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Neighbors in the News: Tri-Merit accountant named to ‘100 Most Influential People’ listJan 10, 2024 1:00 am - • Randy Crabtree, co-founder of Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals, Schaumburg, was named to Accounting Today’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in Accounting....
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Big Media's Partisan Rush to Defend Ex-Harvard PresidentJan 09, 2024 2:39 pm - If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the "liberal Washington Post." The newspaper's Thursday story on the resignati...
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Our inevitably negative politicsJan 09, 2024 9:31 am - To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament "the fact th...
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College Achievers: Gronowski caps junior football season in a big wayJan 08, 2024 5:51 pm - South Dakota State quarterback Mark Gronowski (Neuqua Valley) earned a wealth of honors for his junior football season with the Jackrabbits, none larger than the one ...
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The Al Shifa Hospital and HamasJan 08, 2024 11:46 am - Israel was roundly attacked around the world for targeting the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza last November. In the United Nations, and in the international media, Israel was ...
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Helping Young Men Reach Their AmbitionsJan 08, 2024 11:40 am - Colleges and universities are preparing for the spring 2024 semester, and one current trend will be obvious at many campuses throughout the nation: there are fewer young ...