Opinion Columns
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Fighting the pandemic after the electionOct 28, 2020 1:00 am - We are in the midst of the most unusual election period in the history of our country. The unprecedented political polarization, in the middle of the worst pandemic in a...
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Big Journalism's laptop/dossier double standardOct 27, 2020 1:00 am - "60 Minutes" host Lesley Stahl probably figured her sit-down with President Donald Trump last week would be the usual fare. She would ask "tough questions," as she told ...
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Schools will benefit from vote for 'fairness'Oct 25, 2020 1:00 am - As a teacher who works in a well-funded suburban district in Illinois, I always joke with my CPS teacher friends that they should join the dark side and "come to the sub...
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Flat tax vote will shape the state's future - and not for the betterOct 25, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois voters will cast the most important vote of their lifetime on Nov. 3, one that will determine whether our state can make a full economic recovery following the ...
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Data show now is precisely the time to move to a progressive income taxOct 23, 2020 1:00 am - This November, voters have the opportunity to ratify an amendment to the Illinois Constitution that will permit the state to use a graduated rate structure for its incom...
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Both candidates' risky strategiesOct 23, 2020 1:00 am - Are both presidential candidates trying to lose? Or at least pursuing campaign strategies which put them at grave risk of defeat? In nearly four years, Donald Trump has ...
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Timely slogan for voters: BewareOct 22, 2020 1:00 am - In election campaign season, it can help to keep in mind this slight modification of a well-known Latin phrase referring to unregulated commercialism: caveat suffragator...
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2020 Campaign: shortages of wit and wisdomOct 21, 2020 1:00 am - By Mark Shields This bizarre presidential election year has suffered from acute shortages of both wit and wisdom, a fact that was highlighted for me by the passing of Ro...
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Let's not spoil suburbs' 'wonder' with progressive taxOct 20, 2020 1:00 am - The suburbs were supposed to be the place of the American Dream, of upward mobility, high-quality schools and longtime neighbors who become lifelong friends. The Daily ...
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Degrading the court and the rule of lawOct 20, 2020 1:00 am - There were times when I crowded in front of stores selling televisions to watch Anita Hill or Clarence Thomas, to see Robert Bork borked, to catch the latest on Brett Ka...