Opinion Columns
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Words for the Class of 2020Apr 21, 2020 1:00 am - There will be no graduation festivities this spring at dozens of American colleges and universities, including Ohio State, Brigham Young, Howard, Swarthmore, Notre Dame,...
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The odds are stacked against free enterprise in VirginiaApr 21, 2020 1:00 am - As we continue weathering the coronavirus pandemic, some forward-thinking states and their leaders are preparing a pivot that puts their people back to work and brighten...
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We're getting closer to control of COVID-19, but protective measures still importantApr 20, 2020 1:00 am - On Dec. 31, 2019, China first reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan Province. By Jan. 7, the Chinese health authorities confirmed this was a novel coronavirus. ...
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Mail-order dreamsApr 19, 2020 1:00 am - As a working-class man who shrewdly avoided work by becoming a writer, the United States Post Office means three things to me. The first is that postal jobs are good job...
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The opioid epidemic meets the COVID-19 pandemicApr 19, 2020 1:00 am - Recovering opioid addicts are a vulnerable community during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Now more than ever, they are susceptible to relapse because effective recovery ofte...
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Many small businesses won't survive pandemicApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - On March 20, Gov. Pritzker ordered thousands of businesses to close and left thousands more, like mine, in a kind of limbo that might as well be a shutdown. Pritzker's o...
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Independence has been hallmark of VOA in telling America's storyApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - For more than 40 years, Willis Conover was perhaps the most famous American in the world that most Americans had never heard of. From the mid-1950s until 1996, Conover's...
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Save lives - appoint a supply chain czarApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - In my conversations with our local hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have consistently heard the same concern: "We are worried about our stock of personal protec...
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When no one knows the person who is sufferingApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - There are important voices we sometimes cannot share. I'm sharing one today. It is an unsigned letter to the editor we received. The Daily Herald does not publish anonym...
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Fixing college corruptionApr 15, 2020 1:00 am - America's colleges are rife with corruption. The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let's first let's examine what ...