Opinion Columns
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Remember the hysteria over Trump's tax returns?Jan 05, 2023 12:00 am - By Byron York Democratic lawmakers had fought for years to get the documents. They claimed they needed them not for partisan political reasons but in order to oversee ...
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Overdose prevention sitesJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - They call them "overdose prevention sites." I'd never heard of them until I saw the picture in the LA Times of a drug user literally falling down in the middle of a city...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: My hope for more healing in 2023Jan 04, 2023 12:00 am - I got an unexpected Facebook message from someone I had unfriended a couple of years back. We disagree on politics, and I just could not handle all the hateful rhetoric ...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: COVID only accelerated the blue state exodusJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions com...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe.Jan 03, 2023 12:00 am - On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe. These days, smoking in a store is as bad as smoking ...
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Cook County government has never been more diverseJan 02, 2023 10:00 pm - November was a historic month, locally and nationally. I became the first openly-LGBTQ commissioner to be reelected. Anthony Quezada became the first openly gay Latino t...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: President Zelenskyy holds a strong handJan 02, 2023 12:00 am - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine ended 2022 in a strong and highly visible manner. On Dec. 21, he addressed both houses of the United States Congress and receive...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The trouble with IsraelJan 01, 2023 12:00 am - The trouble with Israel is very simple. It's a democracy. They elect their own leaders. Not ones I'd vote for. They may sometimes feel the same way about us. So no, I do...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: For Jan. 6 committee, time for transparency is running outJan 01, 2023 12:00 am - Republicans take control of the House of Representatives this week. When that happens, the Jan. 6 committee, with all its members selected by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelo...
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Facts Matter: No evidence that postal uniforms were stolen and used in robbery ruseDec 31, 2022 12:00 am - A recent post bears a warning for other social media users. A Dec. 19 Facebook post, shared nearly 4,000 times, claims "the United States Postal Service uniform store" w...