Opinion Columns
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A day to remember there are newsworthy blessings every dayNov 23, 2023 12:00 am - "The world is so full of a number of things," begins the famous Robert Louis Stevenson line from "A Child's Garden of Verses" that I'm sure you can finish without my hel...
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On somber anniversary, the legacy of the 'Kennedy attitude'Nov 22, 2023 12:00 am - The president of the United States travels to Texas to mitigate factional strife in his Democratic Party on Nov. 22, 1963, and is gunned down on a Dallas street. Two day...
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If Trump winsNov 22, 2023 12:00 am - We need to talk about what happens if Donald Trump wins. We need to talk about it because there is a real chance that he could, especially if we don't talk about it. We'...
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Shhhh! The Ukrainians don't know yetNov 21, 2023 12:00 am - In Ukraine, war continues and begins to go unnoticed. Note I wrote "Ukraine" and not "The Ukraine." The first indicates I went to college. The second indicates I may hav...
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Meeting students where they are post-COVIDNov 21, 2023 12:00 am - This week, my associate dean at Ohio State University's Lima campus sent the faculty a reprint of an earlier Chronicle of Higher Education story on students' demands for...
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Punching fellow Republicans and getting on TVNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - There have been more than 2 million illegal border crossings during each of the last two years under President Joe Biden. It should be no surprise then that a September ...
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Bidenomics 2023: Inflation down, prices upNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - The government announced Tuesday that the Consumer Price Index rose 3.2% in October from the same time last year. That is less than the 3.7% prices rose in September, le...
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Early-childhood efforts a key to success in lifeNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - As DuPage County state's attorney and a proud member of the executive committee of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois, I strongly support the wide-ranging value of ear...
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A careful look in the mirror shows it's Hamas, not Israel, that supports genocideNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - Mirror politics is accusing your opponents of doing the very thing you yourself are doing or wish to do. That's what's going on in the Middle East right now when anti-Is...
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See no evil: On American campuses, it's tiki torch timeNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - Lexington, Massachusetts, is a peaceful town, famous for being an ideal place to raise children. Young couples move there from everywhere so that their children can atte...