Opinion Columns
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How COVID-19 has affected visual side of our journalismAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - The novel coronavirus has affected photography in the Daily Herald in two important ways - how we take pictures and video and how we publish them. Most of us at the pape...
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Leftist effort to revise American historyAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - This column has been updated to remove a paragraph contained in the original version that included quotes as though they were legitimate though they came from a sati...
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The crucial call to 'walk with the wind'Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am - What a moment in America. On Thursday, three former U.S. presidents - George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - walked into Atlanta's storied Ebenezer Baptist Chur...
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Honoring the fallenAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - Capping a week of deserved tributes, the funeral for Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church brought me back a quarter-century to another funeral f...
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Intensifying into violenceAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - "Protestors in California," tweeted ABC News, about an incident in Oakland, "set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful d...
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Letter from the editor: Authorities might be silent, but we still seek detailsAug 03, 2020 1:00 am - Early in the morning on Saturday, June 27, something dramatic happened at a house on Picton Road in Roselle. More than a month later, we still don't know much about what...
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U.S. economy needs that CARES unemployment bumpJul 31, 2020 1:00 am - The harm being done to the U.S. economy by COVID-19 is substantial and pervasive. As it stands today, the unemployment rate remains above 11 percent, better than a month...
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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...