Opinion Columns
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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 ...
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A district spent $2 million on artwork? The story of a story that wasn't a storyNov 21, 2019 12:00 am - Sometimes, journalism involves not reporting things that didn't happen. Here's an example: The caller, anonymous, was outraged. How, she wondered, could we not report t...
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Why Democrats don't want public to know origins of Ukraine probeNov 21, 2019 12:00 am - Why are House Democrats stonewalling questions about the identity of the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower? Start by taking them at their word. Perhaps they really are concern...
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Scientists: Dishonest or afraid?Nov 20, 2019 12:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: http://walterewilliams.com/scientists-dishonest-or-afraid/ ...
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Whistleblowers are fundamental to honest governmentNov 20, 2019 12:00 am - A few days ago, I was back on the island of Cyprus and had the occasion to visit my former colleagues at the American Embassy. As I went down one familiar hallway, I saw...
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Why public servants need to be protectedNov 19, 2019 12:00 am - If Ambassador Bill Taylor didn't exist already, we'd have to invent him. With a made-for-TV voice filled to the brim with gravitas, the West Point grad and career public...
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The Disney+ disclaimer: Can't we just watch the movie?Nov 19, 2019 12:00 am - I adored the story of "Cinderella" as a child. The prospect of having a man so in love with me that he'd crisscross the Kingdom searching for my size 6 1/2 foot, was hea...