Opinion Columns
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Show young immigrants America's promise is realSep 04, 2017 1:00 am - Nearly a decade ago, the church my husband and I founded launched a Spanish-language service. As the demographics of our suburban community changed, we wanted to reach a...
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A change in perception can build America's skilled workforceSep 04, 2017 1:00 am - The skills gap is real - and Americans still haven't seen the worst of it. According to SkillsUSA, a national organization that provides career and technical education t...
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Dragons don't just sprout up in the desertSep 03, 2017 1:00 am - By Ruben Navarrette Jr. Now that President Trump has pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, many Latinos are feeling enraged. And a lot of...
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Heroic fundraising efforts just a suburban normSep 02, 2017 2:00 pm - I was trolling through our online archives when I came across the first-person, Straight from the Source essay by Jean Wescher of Carol Stream. She's the 34-year-old wif...
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Realistic choices must be made in AfghanistanSep 01, 2017 1:00 am - When summer ends and autumn begins, one tends to feel instinctively, if foolishly, that other things will end and begin, too. That's certainly not true when it comes to ...
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Even pardons have limitsSep 01, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump had the right to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County after he was convicted of defying a federal judge. But just because a president h...
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Trump vs. The filibusterAug 31, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump brings an outsider's perspective to the long debate over the Senate filibuster. An overwhelming majority of the Senate disagrees with his desire to kill ...
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Slusher: Eclipse, Hurricane Harvey show our better natureAug 31, 2017 1:00 am - Last week started with the a solar eclipse. It ended with a devastating hurricane that was historic even by hurricane standards. It's easy to see why primitive societies...
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To brother Cromartie, with loveAug 30, 2017 1:00 am - There is something eternally bonding about a shared near-death experience, which is how I first met Michael Cromartie. This was 15 or so years ago, before I had moved to...
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With the Arpaio pardon, Trump deepened the moral damage to the GOPAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - Repetition is the enemy of maintaining proper distinctions. It is a short road from being serially outraged to being slightly bored to being completely inured. Thus man...