Opinion Columns
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Illinois citizen lobbyists press for bold climate action in WashingtonJun 11, 2024 2:06 pm - Guest columnist Joe Tedino: I plan to be in Washington, D.C., this week with more than 30 other Illinois residents and about 1,000 people from all 50 states heading to Capitol Hill for hundreds of climate-focused meetings with lawmakers.
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Using a 'sham case' to undermine democracyJun 10, 2024 11:30 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone:
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Getting us cheapJun 10, 2024 11:25 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: A few years ago, if you were making just a breath over $20 an hour, you could consider yourself lower-middle class if your husband made at least as much.
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Pritzker sidelines Illinois in Biden’s long nuclear playJun 08, 2024 2:45 pm - Guest columnists Madison Hilly and Alan Medsker: On May 31, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm called for the construction of hundreds of large nuclear reactors in a speech at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. With the completion of two new AP1000 reactors, Vogtle 3 and 4, the site is now the largest source of clean energy in America.
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The GOP cynicism on border policyJun 08, 2024 2:30 pm - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: When Donald Trump told Republicans to kill the bipartisan immigration bill — even though its primary author was conservative GOP Senator James Lankford — many Republicans argued that the bill was unnecessary because President Biden had it within his power to fix the border by himself.
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Different rooms: The reality of loss, the possibility of healing and the gift that love itself never recedesJun 08, 2024 12:00 pm - Guest columnist John Lampinen: In the May issue of The Atlantic, political pundit David Frum writes exquisitely about his efforts to cope with the unexpected death in February of his 32-year-old daughter Miranda.
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Examining ‘responsibility’ in the new Illinois state budgetJun 07, 2024 4:00 pm - Illinois’ FY 2025 General Fund budget passed last week on a purely partisan basis. No Republicans supported the $53.1 billion spending plan. Predictably, Democrats extoll...
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The Trump conviction factor in the 2024 race for presidentJun 07, 2024 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York:
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In the wake of Trump conviction, Biden must deal with the mobsJun 06, 2024 4:00 am - If there's a human being more dishonest than Donald Trump, I'm all ears. He is crooked to his core, and his is no mere propensity to deceive but rather pure pathology. Lo...
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Democrats Overreach on the Alito Flag KerfuffleJun 05, 2024 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Three years ago, The Washington Post deemed a story about an upside-down flag outside U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's Virginia home as too thin.