Opinion Columns
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Efforts aim to fight climate change while protecting small businessesApr 15, 2021 1:00 am - Climate change is real and it's happening now. Over the past year, raging wildfires, bitterly cold weather and extreme heat have left too many families across the countr...
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People who share suffering help us allApr 15, 2021 1:00 am - Sometimes, there is one especially important thing you must say to people who open up about tragedies that storm uninvited into their lives. Thank you. This is true enou...
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Biden's infrastructure plan is recovery America needsApr 14, 2021 1:00 am - President Biden's American Jobs Plan is something FDR could be proud of, the type of New Deal-era government program that got a post-Great Depression United States back ...
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Best response to an emergency: All togetherApr 14, 2021 1:00 am - We hear a lot about political polarization and the lack of bipartisanship these days. Bipartisanship can sound like a quaint idea from some simpler time before social me...
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Local signs we are living through the climate emergencyApr 12, 2021 1:00 am - Climate emergency. Why do so many of us turn away from these two simple words when, by acting together, we can greatly reduce the threat? Let's take a closer at what liv...
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Community colleges will be key to recovery from pandemicApr 11, 2021 1:00 am - April is Community College Month. As a proud Harper College alum, vice chair of the Harper College Board of Trustees and board member of the Association of Community Col...
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Fried eggs and beer and the long waitApr 11, 2021 1:00 am - I am part of a small chain of three men, all of us riding out the pandemic, none of us particularly young. One of us is fully retired from the food service industry. I a...
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Will Joe Biden's Jim Crow big lie boomerang?Apr 09, 2021 1:00 am - The big lie works - until it doesn't. The big lie in this case is Joe Biden's charge that the changes in Georgia election law passed by the majority-Republican legislatu...
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And to all the left-wing crazies ...Apr 09, 2021 1:00 am - Former President Donald Trump wished a happy Easter to all including "Radical Left CRAZIES." "Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Pres...
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Combating extremism through educationApr 08, 2021 1:00 am - Extremism and domestic terrorism are not new problems in our country, but they are challenges that in recent weeks have come into sharper focus. How to address these tre...