Opinion Columns
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Being a racist is easy todayJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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Coats' calm competence will be missedJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - With the imminent departure of Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, President Donald Trump has nearly completed his purge of independent minds. Coats' proposed ...
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Illinois in investigators' crosshairs, but but no reforms on horizonJul 30, 2019 1:00 am - Federal authorities are taking a keen interest in Illinois-style government. And they don't seem to like what they see. This year alone, Illinoisans have witnessed: A cr...
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Boris Johnson will accelerate the decline of EuropeJul 30, 2019 1:00 am - Britain has a new prime minister, and Donald Trump approves. "He's tough and he's smart," Trump said of Boris Johnson. "They call him 'Britain Trump.' And people are sa...
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Law gives forest preserve presidents too much powerJul 29, 2019 1:00 am - On June 11, Lake County Forest Preserve President Angelo Kyle unilaterally canceled the 27-year tradition of Civil War Days hosted at the Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wau...
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A waste of Mueller's timeJul 28, 2019 1:00 am - The picture that spoke far more words than former special counsel Robert Mueller uttered during last week's hearings was taken by renowned photographer David Hume Kenner...
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Let's not just focus on elections, but on how we electJul 28, 2019 1:00 am - A few years ago, I was at a polling place here in Indiana where a long line of people stood waiting to vote. A woman recognized me and called me over. "Why is it," she a...
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Signs of hope for wrongfully held people with mental illnessJul 26, 2019 1:00 am - As of July 1, our region is within reach of a pragmatic solution to a major social problem - the overuse of emergency rooms as the default destination of those with ment...
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Can Al Franken be rehabilitated?Jul 26, 2019 1:00 am - By Byron York Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat and former "Saturday Night Live" star forced out of the Senate in late 2017 by #MeToo allegations, is back in the news. ...
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Slusher: To grow, we all need to challenge our ideasJul 25, 2019 1:00 am - One of the frustrations of my job as editor of Opinion in the Daily Herald is the presumption some readers make about our motives when we publish expressions of opinion ...