Columns
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What happens if a board does not adopt a budget?Nov 25, 2025 4:37 pm - What happens if a board does not adopt an annual budget?
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The season for giving and receiving plants as gifts is hereNov 25, 2025 4:05 pm - Chicago Botanic Garden’s Tim Johnson offers tips on choosing, transporting and caring for plants that will be holiday gifts.
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Questions about asbestos and moldNov 25, 2025 1:11 pm - We just purchased a 1920s colonial style home and are now renovating it. In the basement, we removed the carpet and discovered tiles that we fear may contain asbestos.
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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.