Opinion Columns
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Guest opinion: Beware a Trojan Horse for nuclear bailoutsMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - With the nuclear reactor crisis emerging in Ukraine as a backdrop, a bill - HB 5589 - has been introduced in the Illinois legislature that would remove a decades-old mor...
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Syndicated columnist: Long COVID and our trust in governmentMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - As a country, we are suffering from a severe case of long COVID. I don't mean the lingering physical symptoms, awful as they sometimes are. I mean what it has done to ou...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Dion: The junkie's and the driver's lament: You gotta have somethin'Mar 15, 2022 1:00 am - Where I live, it's impossible to get heroin that isn't laced with fentanyl. In fact, most of what is sold as heroin is fentanyl. If you use it as directed, fentanyl kill...
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Syndicated columnist Debra Saunders: The People's House - without the peopleMar 15, 2022 1:00 am - It's been close to two years since Congress closed its doors to the public to slow the spread of COVID-19. While states and local governments are discarding their COVID-...
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Guest opinion: Afghan scholars in U.S. face an uncertain futureMar 14, 2022 1:00 am - There is a conversation going on. It involves scores of young scholars across the length and breadth of America, ensconced in universities where they pursue graduate stu...
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Facts Matter: Ukrainians are not selling captured Russian tank on eBayMar 13, 2022 6:00 am - An image of what appears to be a Russian tank for sale on the eBay auction site has been circulating on social media recently. The supposed eBay listing shows an apparen...
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Ukraine shows we live in a nationalist worldMar 13, 2022 1:00 am - It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That's one of the lessons people are learning from the surprise early results of the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is certa...
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Breonna Taylor two years later: reform should not happen one death at a timeMar 13, 2022 1:00 am - On March 3, a jury found former Louisville Metro Police Department officer Brett Hankison not guilty of wanton endangerment. Breonna Taylor was not the victim in this tr...
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Guest opinion: Communities need state funding restored to protect property taxesMar 11, 2022 12:00 am - As the elected village presidents of Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates, it is our pleasure to write this essay on behalf of our residents concerning the restoration of th...
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Will more defense spending translate to better security?Mar 11, 2022 12:00 am - The brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia has renewed conservatives' calls for large increases of our defense budget. The extra money, we are told, would fund more weapon...