Columns
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O’Donnell: Why Williams and the Bears can win at PhiladelphiaNov 25, 2025 9:00 am - WITH ALL OF THE DEBATE AND DISSECTION twirling around the Bears’ second-year QB, here's a surefire dollop of wavy gravy to drop on any Thanksgiving dinner table: “Caleb W...
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Enforcing immigration laws is not the moral equivalent of the HolocaustNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone:
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Peace Prize for Trump? Ukraine situation not likely to helpNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson:
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Not exactly John Henry, but still a lesson on humans and technologyNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - I received numerous responses to last Thursday’s column lamenting the incompetence of Artificial Intelligence to identify a Dick Van Dyke Show episode that included a han...
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Brash and beautiful: Blue Jays liven up backyards like no other songbirdNov 25, 2025 3:30 am - Brash, blue and beautiful, the charismatic Blue Jay livens up backyards and forest preserves like no other songbird.
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Who had the area’s top prep football performances in the semifinals?Nov 24, 2025 4:07 pm - This edition of the High Five honors the area’s top prep football performances from the state semifinals.
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Spatchcock, dry brine deliver moist, memorable turkeyNov 24, 2025 6:49 am - After years of trial, error and dry turkey, Don Mauer landed on a Thanksgiving game changer. Now, for a moist and flavorful bird, he roasts a whole, heirloom turkey, spatchcocked and dry-brined.
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Dietz: As last week showed, young Blackhawks are bound to make mistakesNov 23, 2025 9:03 pm - John Dietz says the young Blackhawks are bound to make mistakes this season, just like they did in a pair of ugly losses last week.
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‘Edgy’ Tim: One key for all 16 IHSA football finalistsNov 23, 2025 3:23 pm - Rivals prep football analyst “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran offers a key for each of the 16 teams playing in IHSA state title games this weekend.
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Harper’s Jim Macnider continues to add to his legacyNov 23, 2025 1:42 pm - On a snowy golf course in Iowa, Harper College cross country coach Jim Macnider earned his 10th NJCAA Division III men’s cross country title to go with five women’s titles, all since 2011.