Opinion Columns
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Congress must act to help Illinois fight COVID-19 crisisJul 31, 2020 1:00 am - COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through the nation's nursing homes. Already, more than 56,000 residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilitie...
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Schools' pandemic timeline - uncertainty and constant changeJul 30, 2020 1:00 am - As a superintendent who, in my career, has also held positions at the State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health, I know officials in those ag...
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When mob mentality and moral suasion meet the marketsJul 30, 2020 1:00 am - A wave of hasty firings is sweeping across the country, driven by demands from what some call the "cancel culture." The New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet...
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Goodbye, after nearly two centuries, to the national conventionsJul 26, 2020 12:00 am - If things had proceeded according to schedule, we'd be checking the polls this week to see if Joe Biden had gotten a bounce from his acceptance speech in Milwaukee. That...
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Hospitalized during COVID-19Jul 26, 2020 12:00 am - I was due to have a mammogram. I skipped it. I was due for a follow-up chest MRI. I skipped that. As a former smoker, I had scheduled a CT scan for May. I skipped that, ...
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There are plenty of dangers with voting by mailJul 23, 2020 11:00 pm - President Trump has said many times that voting by mail -- which will play a big role in this November's presidential election -- is vulnerable to fraud. "There is treme...
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Time to learn our system from the insideJul 23, 2020 11:00 pm - I've spent a long time in politics, and over those years one thing has remained constant: There are a lot more Americans who criticize government than there are who ser...
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My year of staying aliveJul 22, 2020 11:00 pm - A few days ago, on July 21, I became one year older than my mother was when she died. For eight months, I worried about meeting this milestone. Then the coronavirus arri...
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Don't worry, suburbs; you'll have copsJul 22, 2020 11:00 pm - Most Americans don't live downtown, and they don't live in the country, either. They live in the suburbs. We are a suburban people. Loaded potato skins in a chain restau...
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The legislative changes we need to prevent getting another MadiganJul 22, 2020 11:00 pm - Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has been Illinois' top political leader for 35 years. He has made millions as a property tax attorney in the state with the highest p...