Opinion Columns
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'Build Back Better' agenda should not punish small businessesJun 28, 2021 1:00 am - Across the United States, small businesses are opening their doors once again and serving the needs of our communities. Yet here in Illinois, our unemployment rate is st...
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Hunter Biden's Midas touchJun 27, 2021 1:00 am - President Joe Biden clearly has no problem with his son Hunter Biden cashing in on the family name. It's something Biden has in common with former President Donald Trump...
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Love, loss and pandemic puppiesJun 27, 2021 1:00 am - My daughter got Bella at her dad's house shortly after the divorce. My ex even called the sweet yellow lab "the divorce dog." Visits with dad also meant time with Bella,...
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VP Harris, what about the 'root cause' of urban homicide?Jun 25, 2021 1:00 am - Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the "root cause" of the post-election "surge" of "migrants" to our southern border. Harris ...
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Charles Murray's two uncomfortable truths and his not bad adviceJun 25, 2021 1:00 am - Give Charles Murray, longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, credit for courage. Again and again, despite outrageously unfair attacks, he has returned to ...
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District aims to expand accessJun 24, 2021 1:00 am - This is in response to a guest column in the June 16 Daily Herald headlined "Transparency a concern as schools consider 'de-tracking.'" As President of the District 214 ...
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Reporting on a tornado in a 24-hour news cycleJun 24, 2021 1:00 am - We're all familiar with the 24-hour cycle in which news circulates today. For complex political and social issues, that cycle gets blamed for a lot of premature, misinfo...
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Juneteenth celebration is prematureJun 23, 2021 1:00 am - The celebration of Juneteenth is premature. We should celebrate only when everyone is treated equally and fairly. When in some states the vote of legitimate voters is be...
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Time has shown foreign aid benefits us, tooJun 23, 2021 1:00 am - The recent G-7 summit shows great promise from the leading liberal democracies to help support developing nations recover from COVID-19. Over the past couple years we ha...
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Who said you can age gracefully?Jun 23, 2021 1:00 am - Aging gracefully. If ever I heard of an oxymoron, that's it. There is nothing graceful about all the medical tests - and enhanced risks - that seem to come with each dec...