Opinion Columns
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A day to remember life's consistent joysNov 28, 2019 12:00 am - An enduring stereotype of "the news" is that it's all bad, that the only stories that sell are the sensational or the bizarre. Not true. On Thanksgiving Day, I like to e...
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The story of an unlikely holiday hitNov 28, 2019 12:00 am - During the Holiday Season, which now stretches from Autumnal Equinox to New Year's Day, it's nearly impossible to turn on the radio or walk through a shopping mall witho...
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President's policy shown to be 'Trump First'Nov 27, 2019 12:00 am - The Trump administration's foreign policy, such as it is, has been described a lot of different ways. But one word that's never been applied to it is "coherent." From Is...
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What we see is what you get: Our rules on photo manipulationNov 26, 2019 10:00 pm - If you see a photo in the Daily Herald, you can rest assured that, yes, whatever you're looking at is just what the photographer saw. Clearly-identified photo illustrati...
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Let's get every bottle backNov 26, 2019 12:00 am - According to the Rochester Institute of Technology, more than 22 million pounds of plastic end up on the shores of the Great Lakes. Our lakes are precious resources that...
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Silencing Stefanik is roar for conservative womenNov 26, 2019 12:00 am - By Christine Flowers Elise Stefanik, a representative from upstate New York, tried to speak at the impeachment inquiry this past week. She tried several times to ask a q...
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Spoilers or saviors? The challenge for Democratic middle groundNov 24, 2019 12:00 am - For eight years, Joe Biden sat at Barack Obama's right hand, loyally serving the administration, promoting its agenda and providing advice and counsel in the development...
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How do we keep our democracy healthy?Nov 24, 2019 12:00 am - Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It's that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues - or at ...
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Illinois lawmakers: Put pension reform on the 2020 ballotNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - Weeks after the Illinois General Assembly moved to put a progressive state income tax question on the November 2020 ballot, a Daily Herald investigation illustrated that...
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Amid regulation pressures for Big Tech, transparency the least-bad optionNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - A new Wall Street Journal expose finding that "Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its ...