Opinion Columns
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Guest columnist Ralph Martire: Gimmicks, you say? Pritzker plan is sound fiscal policyFeb 11, 2022 12:00 am - Attaining bipartisan consensus on any major issue has become increasingly difficult. For the most part, all public discourse has devolved into political posturing to gai...
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Can U.K's version of Trump survive?Feb 11, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON - The parallels between American and British politics make many Brits nervous - especially when it comes to brash Prime Minister Boris Johnson and boastful former...
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Opinion: Old newsrooms under deadline:, a story told by Carl BernsteinFeb 10, 2022 12:00 am - I just read Carl Bernstein's new memoir, "Chasing History," on being a "kid" in the newsroom, when young President John F. Kennedy was alive. It almost broke my heart. B...
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To look backward or forward? GOP must pick oneFeb 10, 2022 12:00 am - There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just because a question is si...
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Opinion: 'Sex Is a Funny Word" is not appropriate for an elementary school classroom.Feb 09, 2022 12:00 am - The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. "Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S." reads Sunday's headline. "Parents, activists, school boar...
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Opinion column: Price controls always backfire. The market controls inflation.Feb 09, 2022 12:00 am - With some pundits advocating for price controls to fight inflation, it suddenly feels like the 1970s again. This type of overbearing intervention has never worked as mar...
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Returning to normalcy on school masksFeb 08, 2022 12:00 am - Are we returning to normalcy? The word "normalcy," as history buffs know, was used (but not invented) by our only journalist president, Warren G. Harding, to sum up his ...
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The making of a readerFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - There's a voracious reader in all of us, I thought, but my youngest daughter was determined to prove me wrong. I took her to the eye doctor for one reason: so he could t...
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Biden drags Democrats downFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - Most of us see President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for t...
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Why couldn't he just pick a Black woman?Feb 04, 2022 12:00 am - Why couldn't President Joe Biden have announced that he was going to pick the most qualified person to fill Stephen Breyer's seat on the Supreme Court - and then come ba...