Opinion Columns
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Sanders' economic plan looks like a duck, despite how some quackFeb 25, 2020 12:00 am - As Sen. Bernie Sanders looks more and more like the one who may win the Democratic presidential nomination, some tell us that he isn't the radical leftist others make hi...
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5G and innovation in the Windy CityFeb 24, 2020 12:00 am - 5G is the fifth generation of wireless communication technology and it's starting to come online in places like Chicago. 5G will connect the way Americans think, live an...
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Politicians 1, taxpayers 0 in Avon TownshipFeb 24, 2020 12:00 am - It felt like a scene right out of the Chicago Democrat Machine at Tuesday night's Avon Township Board meeting. The meeting was called by the trustees to discuss the poss...
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Blagojevich is hardly the right spokesman for criminal justice reformFeb 23, 2020 12:00 am - Rod Blagojevich is back in Illinois and we are all poorer for it. President Donald Trump, who campaigned before crowds chanting "drain the swamp," sprung one of Illinois...
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A history belle's pick of presidentsFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - So, here we are on Presidents Day in Washington, the city hushed on the holiday. Picture me on the porch looking over my personal A-list. George Washington receives vis...
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Shaving to the boneFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - In World War I, when the combatants hunkered down fearfully in miles of opposing trenches, everything took on the name of the trench. There was trench foot, a disease, a...
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Sanders' economic plan looks like a duck, despite how some quackFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - As Sen. Bernie Sanders looks more and more like the one who may win the Democratic presidential nomination, some tell us that he isn't the radical leftist others make hi...
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A different kind of resistance is building in WashingtonFeb 20, 2020 10:00 pm - It was a moment that summed up why everyone feels so hopeless about Washington. Before his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Donald Trump refused ...
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Without civility, our system doesn't workFeb 20, 2020 12:00 am - When he was just a young teenage schoolboy, George Washington sat down and copied out 110 "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior." Many of these had to do with simple mann...
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Numbers show Trump tax cuts helping wealthy, not economyFeb 20, 2020 12:00 am - Late in 2017, the Trump Administration pushed the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" through Congress. Promising it would stimulate economic growth to record levels, Trump's signat...