Opinion Columns
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How state can help assure stability for long-term care providersFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - The long-term care profession is rooted in compassion. The work we do as senior care providers often goes unnoticed, but our caregivers truly love what they do, and thei...
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If schools are essential, they should be openFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - "There are only two choices: Which one will it be?" the Chicago Teachers Union argued to its members. "Risk your life or your students' lives by going into dangerous bui...
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Crime bill was carefully drafted to meet needsFeb 02, 2021 12:00 am - Last year, the lines of racial injustice and equality became more complicated. The nation was shown inequality, racial disparity and polarization still exists. It prove...
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The conversation we owe our college students on COVID-19Feb 02, 2021 12:00 am - Two weeks into spring semester at the University of Florida, groups of unmasked college students - 30 or more at a time, many hollering as they partied - stood in lines ...
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Democrats, Republicans not far apart on China, Russia policyJan 31, 2021 12:00 am - It was Heraclitus who wrote that: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he's not the same man." That would seem to be an apt descr...
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Understanding the American votersJan 31, 2021 12:00 am - By Mark Shields Regular readers of this space may recall that I believe Americans are the most optimistic of voters. Think about it: With the exception of those who were...
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The new federalismJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - By Susan Estrich The U.S. COVID response has been called "federalism at its best" - treating the states as "laboratories of change," as former Justice Louis Brandeis on...
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To make a desirable community even better, we must embrace diversityJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - As president of the League of Women Voters of Arlington Heights-Mount Prospect-Buffalo Grove Areas, I was asked to join with other Arlington Heights community members an...
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A week to reflect on your ability to evaluate newsJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher The Daily Herald is a reliable source of information about suburban communities and state and national issues and events, but you won't find a single pers...
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Can Trump be tried?Jan 28, 2021 12:00 am - House Democratic impeachment managers have delivered to the Senate a single, hastily passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A trial is set to begi...