Opinion Columns
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Illinois' teacher shortage crisis is dire, but we are not without solutionsFeb 03, 2022 12:00 am - Back in 2019, I traveled throughout Illinois to speak with superintendents about the growing teacher shortage in the state and how it was affecting students in their dis...
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The justice retiresFeb 02, 2022 12:00 am - It was the spring of 1979 when I got a call from a former professor offering me a job. I was fresh out of law school, clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. ...
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Voters oppose 'transformative' policies, want reform of dysfunctional bureaucraciesFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - Do Americans really want transformative change? The evidence accumulates that they don't. That is a problem for the Joe Biden Democrats, whose policies are premised on t...
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Chaos and crime are not homelessFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - New Yorker Michelle Go was pushed in front of a moving subway train, Sandra Shells was waiting for a bus in Los Angeles and Brianna Kupfer was working in a furniture sto...
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Maybe it's time to consider a permanent site for OlympicsJan 30, 2022 12:00 am - At the first modern Summer Olympic Games in Greece in 1896, Greece's King George I made a modest proposal. Why not provide a permanent site for the games at Olympia, Gre...
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Next two years will be true barometer of Biden's successJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - It's been about a year since Joe Biden took office as President and though it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about his performance, it's not too early to dis...
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The weaponization of #MeTooJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - The nasty emails have started to come in, as I knew they would. "Why are you representing a rapist," they begin, and forget about all that Clarence Darrow stuff. "Why yo...
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Despite evidence, polls, don't count on any change in BidenJan 27, 2022 12:00 am - The failures of President Joe Biden's first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big cities. The U.S.-Mexico...
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U.S. must do better job of reading PutinJan 27, 2022 12:00 am - Now is not a good time to go to war with Russia. The United States just ended a 20-year lost war in Afghanistan five months ago, returning the ragged country to the Tali...
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Abolish parenthood? No, family trumps 'equity'Jan 26, 2022 12:00 am - "California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity." That's the headline of a Ventura County Star column by Zocalo Public Square's Joe Mathews. "Want true equi...