Opinion Columns
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The opioid epidemic meets the COVID-19 pandemicApr 19, 2020 1:00 am - Recovering opioid addicts are a vulnerable community during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Now more than ever, they are susceptible to relapse because effective recovery ofte...
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Many small businesses won't survive pandemicApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - On March 20, Gov. Pritzker ordered thousands of businesses to close and left thousands more, like mine, in a kind of limbo that might as well be a shutdown. Pritzker's o...
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Independence has been hallmark of VOA in telling America's storyApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - For more than 40 years, Willis Conover was perhaps the most famous American in the world that most Americans had never heard of. From the mid-1950s until 1996, Conover's...
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Save lives - appoint a supply chain czarApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - In my conversations with our local hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have consistently heard the same concern: "We are worried about our stock of personal protec...
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When no one knows the person who is sufferingApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - There are important voices we sometimes cannot share. I'm sharing one today. It is an unsigned letter to the editor we received. The Daily Herald does not publish anonym...
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Fixing college corruptionApr 15, 2020 1:00 am - America's colleges are rife with corruption. The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let's first let's examine what ...
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Adult-style prisons are the wrong approach for helping juvenilesApr 15, 2020 1:00 am - Decades ago, someone in state government decided the state's prisons for teenagers should be called "Youth Centers" - like they were places where teens play basketball, ...
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His television success isn't helping President Trump nowApr 14, 2020 1:00 am - Somebody close to President Donald Trump could, in a burst of candor, tell him that he does not know everything to be known about the history of the filibuster in the Un...
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What makes a successful politician?Apr 14, 2020 1:00 am - One of the intriguing features of the coronavirus pandemic is how sharply it has illuminated the importance of effective political leadership. Wherever we stand on the p...
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Why LWV supports graduated income taxApr 13, 2020 1:00 am - For 50 years, the League of Women Voters has supported a graduated rate or fair income tax for Illinois. Finally, in May of last year, the General Assembly agreed with u...