Opinion Columns
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Can Trump win with promise to restore safety and order?Aug 13, 2020 1:00 am - Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York and other major cities are experiencing a breakdown of order - violence and conflict that is a mixture of left...
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Merger will help hospital grow and remain community-focusedAug 12, 2020 1:00 am - Last month, Northwest Community Healthcare announced our intention to merge with NorthShore University Health System. For many years, NCH has been sought as a partner b...
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Let's avoid the dueling dogmaAug 12, 2020 1:00 am - On Thursday, July 30, President Donald Trump landed here in Cleveland and had barely plodded across the tarmac before declaring that Joe Biden would "hurt God." I strugg...
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Racism is a mental health issue, especially for childrenAug 11, 2020 1:00 am - Racism is a mental health issue for all of us, especially children. Growing up, we learned not to touch a hot stove, not to take candy from strangers and not to cross a ...
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The missing group of voters in 2020Aug 11, 2020 1:00 am - By Mark Shields Political polls elicit predictable reactions from the candidates being polled. The campaign of the candidate trailing in the poll almost invariably invok...
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Understanding the Japanese-American experience 75 years after WWII's endAug 09, 2020 11:00 pm - As a Japanese-American, or American of Japanese Ancestry (AJA), my preferred term, I had been born in Chicago one year before the end of World War II. My father had immi...
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Ticket balancing may be risky for Joe BidenAug 09, 2020 1:00 am - If the presidential nominating process is the weakest part of our political system -- and, perhaps not coincidentally, one not referenced by the founders -- the vice pre...
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Lessons I learned at the end of the worldAug 09, 2020 1:00 am - By Marc Munroe Dion If it felt at all safe, I would finish this column and go out for a beer. How incredibly old-fashioned it sounds to talk about going out for a beer. ...
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Atomic bombs in AugustAug 07, 2020 1:00 am - By Arthur I. Cyr Guest columnist "Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?" President Barack Obama asked that question publicly on his visit on May 27, 2016. He was t...
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Why the talk of canceling debates?Aug 06, 2020 1:00 am - There are three presidential debates scheduled before the Nov. 3 election. The first will be on Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The second will...