Opinion Columns
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Fake news is the storyDec 28, 2017 12:00 am - As a functional obsessive-compulsive, I'm never happier than at year's end when I get to make lists. Herewith, my picks for the most important stories of 2017: This year...
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O'Hare western access is road to opportunityDec 27, 2017 12:00 am - By John Carpenter Guest columnist There have been a number of stories written over the past few years regarding the progress of the Western Access O'Hare project. Local ...
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Stocking full of coal: Illinois shrinkage poses major problemsDec 26, 2017 12:00 am - With the end of each year comes an exercise in perspective. One looks back at what was, and ahead at what could be. In Illinois, both visions can be frightening. New dat...
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As the year ends, the moral authority of the presidency is in tattersDec 26, 2017 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson Vice President Mike Pence's obsequiousness at a recent Cabinet meeting - "Thank you for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that is truly ...
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A Christmas story of honesty, humility in ChicagoDec 24, 2017 12:00 am - This is a Once Upon a Time story for Christmas and for all hopeful people everywhere. It is also a simple story - deceptively so. It is late autumn 2017, and I am visiti...
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What's in a word? Consider 'youthquake'Dec 24, 2017 12:00 am - By Arthur I. Cyr Guest columnist "Youthquake" arrives. The learned lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have now selected this word as official Word of ...
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Words that weren't banned and those that should beDec 22, 2017 12:00 am - The recent excitement over an incredible story about the government trying to ban certain words reminded me of all the words and phrases I despise and wish were banned. ...
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Reform plan violates basic tenets of capitalist tax policyDec 22, 2017 12:00 am - So, what's not to like about the sweeping federal tax package the Republicans are pushing through Congress? If you answered "virtually everything" you'd be right. As mos...
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Trump has year of solid policy accomplishments. What now?Dec 21, 2017 12:00 am - Something is happening in the final days of 2017. People are noticing that Donald Trump has gotten a lot done in his tumultuous first year in the White House. If in, say...
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Slusher: Sex, violence and what really gets readers' attentionDec 21, 2017 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher There is an axiom regarding the newspaper business that says sensational news and sensational headlines attract newspaper readership. Like most axioms, th...