Columns
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Tired of deportationNov 30, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: The news business has a number of lessons to teach. One of them is that Americans will not read the same story over and over and over again unless the story is about sports, sex, food, coffee or a celebrity's descent into and rise from the hell of drug addiction.
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O’Donnell: From Ben Johnson to Red Panda, shoveling a snowy batch of Ins and OutsNov 29, 2025 4:52 pm - ON A SLEIGH RIDE FROM THANKSGIVING TO CHRISTMAS, jingles and jangles spotlighting select sports Ins and Outs: IN --- The Bears — Still standing after Philadelphia, how ca...
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Lincicome: The best award an NFL coach can win is keeping his jobNov 29, 2025 4:28 pm - Surviving the Eagles has undoubtedly made Ben Johnson the front runner for NFL Coach of the Year, and to him sympathy is offered, this coming from someone who remembers Matt Nagy, and fewer and fewer of us are willing to admit that.
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4 things to know about federal vs. private student loansNov 28, 2025 9:33 am - The college application system seems designed to confuse families.
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A call to our better angelsNov 28, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Time for another round of IHSA football title game predictionsNov 27, 2025 8:00 am - If it’s Thanksgiving weekend, it must be time for the Daily Herald’s annual prep football predictions for the eight upcoming IHSA championship games.
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Silvy: These Bears are finally giving us so much to be thankful forNov 27, 2025 8:00 am - Thankful columns at Thanksgiving can be cheesy or cliché, but realistic hope over our favorite team calls for gratitude and appreciation.
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A number of things behind an important Thanksgiving reminderNov 27, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: Reading the news or following events on broadcast or social media can often seem to consign Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous line from the poem “Happy Thought” to the realm of quaint naivete. But then, there is Thanksgiving.
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Venezuela, covert action and national securityNov 27, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Arthur I. Cyr: A basic fact of life is that the United States does not willingly tolerate hostile regimes in the Americas.
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Laboring in a spiritual harvestNov 27, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: