Opinion Columns
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The GOP would unify around Trump at its perilApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - The other day I spied a high Republican official walking on the street and called out his name. He stopped, hit his smile app and exclaimed how glad he was to see me. "W...
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Brazil's past still clouds its futureApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - Anyone who lives in Rio de Janeiro for a spell, as I did, is bound to hear one or many versions of how big, bountiful and sometimes bad Brazil has been blessed by God wi...
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Karma tastes rich in new humane economyApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - As the human circus of presidential politics has plodded along for what seems a decade now, a revolution has been taking place in the ever-more-dignified animal kingdom....
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Citizens must force redistricting reformApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - During our years of service in the Illinois House of Representatives, we worked together on many issues and projects to benefit our districts and our region and state, e...
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Do we really want to obey - or enforce - speed limits?Apr 17, 2016 7:00 am - Some pearls of wisdom from our letters to the editor column: Responding to Transportation Writer Marni Pyke's column about the perils of merging via "cattle chute" onto ...
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Let Trump play the victimApr 17, 2016 1:00 am - Welcome to Donald Trump's banana republic. "We're going to have protests, demonstrations," says Trump surrogate and confidante Roger Stone. "We will disclose the hotels ...
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Is GOP headed for its own Bush v. Gore?Apr 15, 2016 1:00 am - It's now likely Republicans are headed toward a contested convention in July. But they might be headed toward more than that - the party could be on its way to an intern...
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COD public records destruction and the public trustApr 15, 2016 1:00 am - One year ago, on April 13, 2015, U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon empaneled a grand jury and subpoenaed College of DuPage records relating to spending, personnel, reimbursem...
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Shoes start to fall in Panama Papers scandalApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - It's too wonderful. It's too delicious. It's too Graham Greene! It's Edward Snowden without Uncle Sam, it's the Pentagon Papers without a war in Asia, and it's every con...
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The questions I never askedApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - I am reading a book about death. It is Katie Roiphe's "The Violet Hour" and it is about how some people, all of them famous, faced death or thought about it. I turned to...