Opinion Columns
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Father's Day: Fatherless, America's top domestic problemJun 20, 2021 1:00 am - A new powerful new documentary called "The Streets Were My Father" features three Chicago men, two Hispanics and one Black, who grew up without fathers. All three did ha...
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Juneteenth: A bittersweet holidayJun 18, 2021 1:00 am - Every Independence Day, I have 30 to 40 family and friends at my house in Evanston for a cookout. I always brag that my menu of chicken rice pilaf with vegetables, grill...
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Harris needs to warm up her actJun 17, 2021 1:00 am - She hasn't had a good moment yet. Brittle is the word, without a bit of President Joe Biden's bonhomie. I speak of Vice President Kamala Harris, who made history as the ...
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Aurora's Juneteenth 2020 response to calls for changeJun 17, 2021 1:00 am - As for most of the country, this past year has had a keen focus on "change" across Aurora. For us, C.H.A.N.G.E. is an acronym for Community Helping Aurora's Necessary Gr...
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Transparency a concern as schools move to 'de-track' studentsJun 16, 2021 1:00 am - Should high school honors classes be ended, and those students be moved to the same classroom as their non-honors counterparts? Should struggling students be moved out o...
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Gov. Newsom, Kevin Cooper is guiltyJun 15, 2021 1:00 am - Kevin Cooper used to tell reporters that he wanted DNA testing, which didn't exist when he went to trial, to prove that he was not guilty of the four 1983 murders that p...
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Our commitment to health equity must continue after the pandemicJun 15, 2021 1:00 am - Across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health disparities experienced by people of color. For example, data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation throu...
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Demystifying the magical multiplier mythJun 13, 2021 1:00 am - The scale and scope of government spending expansion in the last year are unprecedented. Because Uncle Sam doesn't have the money, lots of it went on the government's cr...
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What do we do without the distraction of Donald Trump?Jun 13, 2021 1:00 am - I never thought I would say it but I miss Donald Trump. Not as president, certainly not that. But as a distraction. Remember how every morning you could wake up to screa...
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As we reopen, reflections on risks, changes and pandemic managementJun 11, 2021 1:00 am - The coronavirus rocked us, but we agree on some things about COVID-19. It's a global pandemic, almost 600,000 Americans died and it is primarily spread by respiratory dr...