Opinion Columns
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Focus on premiums all that's needed to fix workers compensationJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - Guest columnist Steve Schneider of the American Insurance Association recently suggested "three real" steps that Illinois should take on workers' compensation. It might ...
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Trump-Russia: The bank-shot investigationMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - On May 22, a man named Evgeny Freidman, the owner of more than 800 taxi licenses in New York City, pleaded guilty to "failure to remit to the New York State Department o...
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Slusher: Another lesson of Barr scandal - written word needs extra careMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - By Jim Slusher I have spent my career devoted to the written word, so far be it from me to disparage it. But as Roseanne Barr found this week - and as sites like Twitter...
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The massive failure of Christian political leadershipMay 30, 2018 1:00 am - Three recent news items: • At the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, House Speaker Paul Ryan said: "We see moral relativism becoming more and more pervasive in ou...
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Putin's mind in your brainMay 29, 2018 1:00 am - Facebook ads purchased by Russia during the 2016 campaign, and released by Congress earlier this month, reveal a clear intent to create havoc in the U.S. - and should ma...
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Media burdens run two waysMay 29, 2018 1:00 am - I was chatting with a group of students the other day when one of them looked me in the eye and commented, "You're very tough on journalists." I had to plead guilty. Of ...
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Educational opportunities lost when schools ban Native American symbolsMay 28, 2018 1:00 am - Have you ever wondered why Chief Illiniwek was banished as the symbol of the University of Illinois and why all the fuss about the Warrior Chief at Maine West High Schoo...
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Trump's true talent is marketing failure as successMay 27, 2018 1:00 am - Donald Trump's recurring criticism of his predecessor is that he just didn't know how to make a deal. "Obama is not a natural deal maker," he tweeted in 2016, complainin...
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Don't let 'perfect' be enemy of 'good' in nuclear negotiationsMay 27, 2018 1:00 am - In the autumn of 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, the United States and the then-Soviet Union came as close to a nuclear exchange as has ever happened. Within a yea...
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Where are the truth-tellers?May 25, 2018 1:00 am - Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson never denied calling President Donald Trump a "moron" in private. But only after he was fired did Tillerson have the guts to say ...