Opinion Columns
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Now, state needs feds to step up to help replace unsafe lead pipeOct 07, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois can lead on lead pipe removal. We just need the funding to do so. As a legislator, nothing is more important to me than the health, safety and well-being of my ...
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Numbers alone don't tell the story of infrastructure billOct 06, 2021 1:00 am - Have you ever read a piece of congressional legislation? For a couple of years of my life, I read proposed bills almost every day in my role doing congressional liaison ...
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Biden policies need better arguments than 'orange man bad'Oct 06, 2021 1:00 am - "First you win the argument, then you win the vote." That advice from Margaret Thatcher has been ignored by President Joe Biden and Democratic Party leaders to their det...
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Political divisions have broken up the foundations of our trustOct 05, 2021 1:00 am - What happened? How was it that what we once celebrated - the triumph of vaccines, those cups of orange juice that spelled the end of the iron lung - are now viewed with ...
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North Korea's threat and South Korea's successOct 05, 2021 1:00 am - By Arthur I. Cyr Guest columnist Once again, North Korea is engaging in disturbing provocation. The totalitarian regime in Pyongyang has announced successful launch of a...
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Now is time for transformative investments in mental health careOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - Now more than ever, we need to make transformative investments in mental health care. Too many people live with a mental health disorder but can't access affordable care...
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Jack food, Maggie food and fearOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - My wife Deborah and I have two cats. One is a curvy, entitled calico named Maggie. The other is a gray tabby of no great intelligence named Jack. Cats are the ultimate r...
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'Nancy the Fifth' faces her AgincourtOct 01, 2021 1:00 am - The House is a mess, a visitor might say, with a government shutdown looming at midnight Friday and two Democratic bills worth trillions in infrastructure up in the air....
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The unsettling messages we send when we are unsettledOct 01, 2021 1:00 am - We now know that in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley called his Chinese counterpart General Li Zuocheng. The U.S. had bee...
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License to work: dissidents need not applySep 30, 2021 1:00 am - "I dreamed of being a PI as a kid," private investigator Joshua Gray told me over the phone. Now he is living the dream. At 44, Gray is a licensed PI in Massachusetts, V...