Opinion Columns
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Having Alzheimer’s is hard enough; stigma and bureaucracy make it harderApr 01, 2024 4:00 am - We come before you today as mother and daughter, Terrie and Shon, Alzheimer's patient and caregiver. When I, Terrie, was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's nine years ago, ...
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Make foreign polluters payMar 30, 2024 1:13 pm - Motorists driving along the lakefront in Chicago this winter saw firsthand the effects of climate change: record-low Lake Michigan ice cover. The average ice cover among ...
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The things I used to do, Lord, I won’t do no moreMar 30, 2024 12:50 pm - My father spent the last 13 years of his work life at a sporting goods company, where he was an assistant department head. When he retired, 34 years ago, he had full and ...
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Pursue peace, not war, in MideastMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - The current conflict in the Middle East will go down in history as one of the cruelest man-made catastrophe of this century. As of the writing of this article, more than ...
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A stirring of discontent over resorting to a vague descriptionMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - Alexa, cycling through an unending stream of images from my kitchen counter, beckons me to connect with a variety of network television sports content. And I am troubled....
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Things are great, but they’re miserable, tooMar 29, 2024 4:00 am - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In rereading the opening lines of Charles Dickens' “A Tale of Two Cities,” I had the sense they were written last w...
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Estonia’s 20 years in NATO shows value of allianceMar 28, 2024 7:30 am - Twenty years ago, on March 29, 2004, Estonia, along with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO...
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US Steel-Nippon Steel: A global deal for American prosperityMar 28, 2024 3:15 am - The Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel company recently agreed to be purchased by the Tokyo-headquartered publicly traded company Nippon Steel. This deal makes sense to econom...
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Senate GOP sees antisemitism, Senate Dems see diversityMar 27, 2024 7:45 am - The nomination of Adeel Mangi to fill a vacancy in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hit the skids Tuesday when Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, made i...
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All eyes are on female rising basketball superstarsMar 27, 2024 7:00 am - Like many sports fans this year, I have been in awe of the on-court accomplishments of Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark. Her highlight reels on YouTube show her...