Opinion Columns
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Paying off Trump pays off big timeOct 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Warren Buffett made billions spotting undervalued assets. Today, many billionaires have decided the cheapest buy on the market is influence over the Trump administration.
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It’s time to deliver real transit reform for IllinoisOct 14, 2025 11:25 am - Guest columnist Rep. Mary Beth Canty: As a member of the Illinois General Assembly representing the Northwest suburbs, I am urging my colleagues to act for public transportation in the upcoming fall veto session.
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The new editor-in-chief of CBS News is not like the othersOct 14, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.
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With Americans increasingly pessimistic, leaders must show greater understandingOct 14, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: About a week after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was released, offering insights about the direction in which our country is headed. After the troubling political violence we have witnessed recently, it is not shocking that a majority of those surveyed believe we are in a dire situation.
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Preparing to protest the rebuilding of America from democracy to autocracyOct 13, 2025 4:00 am - After less than nine months in his second term in office, Americans are now finding what President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Project 2025 are all about — reb...
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Gay kids and garbageOct 12, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: The Supreme Court of the United States of America is very interested in gay “conversion therapy,” because, in a country where people are hefting 48-gallon trash cans half full of water, the government is taking yet another dive into the underpants of the nation.
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Paying 'victims' to sueOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: There is a special place in hell for phony victims who take money from settlements meant for the legitimate victims of sexual abuse. Ahead of them, however, come the lawyers who make such scams work and pocket as much as half the settlements themselves.
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Shutdown demand won’t lower health care costs; here’s what willOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Are Democrats sabotaging efforts to reduce health care costs by insisting on extending the COVID-era Obamacare subsidies? Critics argue the $410 billion move is a massive giveaway to insurance companies that won't address skyrocketing medical costs.
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Illinois should hit the gas on driverless carsOct 09, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Kouri Marshall: With world-class universities and a thriving logistics sector, the Chicago area could lead the Midwest in AV deployment, paving the way for safer, greener and more equitable transportation across the region.
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The meat of newspaper week is in what happens every dayOct 09, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: It’s difficult, if not impossible, to summarize why National Newspaper Week is important. That answer comes from the work local journalists do every day.