Opinion Columns
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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...
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The News Literacy Project keeps pressure on fact checkingJan 27, 2021 12:00 am - Can fact checkers take a break? After all, gone is President Donald Trump, who, by The Washington Post's count, lied more than 30,000 times while in office. And his suc...
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Hartstein: Understand your tax bill when you vote this springJan 27, 2021 12:00 am - As you begin to focus on upcoming local elections, this is a good time to get a better understanding of your real estate tax bills that reflect the taxing bodies in your...
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Will Biden leave Little Sisters free to choose?Jan 27, 2021 12:00 am - President Joe Biden likes to talk about unity and his intent to rise above partisan rancor to heal the divisions that led a pro-Trump mob to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6....
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To regain suburbs, Republicans must return to 'first principles'Jan 26, 2021 12:00 am - The Republican Party has arrived at an inflection point where many of our policy solutions have never been more relevant to helping improve citizens' lives but our messa...
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Biden's heartfelt appeal for unity likely to be unavailingJan 26, 2021 12:00 am - "We must end this uncivil war," Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president last Wednesday. Hours earlier, in his last moments as the 45th president,...
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Idealists, idealism and the compromise idealJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - At first glance, the words "idealism" and "idealist" seem almost synonymous, yet I believe they are polar opposites in meaning and substance. As humans, we all have ide...
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The important lost verses to Guthrie's anthemJan 24, 2021 12:00 am - The girls and boys are out tonight in my town, walking back and forth in front of the old gray granite public library, locking glances with men in passing cars, looking ...