Opinion Columns
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Improving access no longer enough for community collegesNov 16, 2015 12:00 am - The original promise of community colleges was to provide access to higher education for all students. Today, access is not enough. We can no longer operate with the o...
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State's needed tax increase held up by politicsNov 13, 2015 12:00 am - How can it ever be the wrong time to do the right thing? I ask because the state's current budget stalemate essentially begs the question. See, both the Democrats, who ...
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Slusher: For Gliniewicz or any story, details can take timeNov 12, 2015 12:00 am - If you're trying to assess news stories involving, say, Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, Patrick Kane or Robert Breuder - or, for that matter, the political candidacies of Ben...
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Trouble for Europe simmers again in the BalkansNov 12, 2015 12:00 am - There are many Bosnians still alive today who remember all too well the horrific four years of war in the 1990s. It was then that the Serbs, with Mongol precision, picke...
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A Vietnam-era veteran's reflection: Honor all who servedNov 11, 2015 12:00 am - I would be proud to call myself a "Vietnam veteran," but I believe this distinction belongs only to those who served "in-country" during that period of war. I regret I d...
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The Republican reality show rat raceNov 10, 2015 4:42 am - The current Republican presidential race is less a political contest than a reality TV series: A stage-managed melodrama with a cast of characters selected to titillate ...
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Truth is too much to bear in politicsNov 10, 2015 4:12 am - WASHINGTON - As Republican presidential candidates debate the debates, roiling and railing against the unfairness of it all, campaigns have been busy rebooting candidate...
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New environmental regulations threaten Illinois jobsNov 09, 2015 12:00 am - A new report from George Mason University ranks Illinois dead last among the 50 states for fiscal health. Unfortunately, the ranking is not surprising. The Land of Linco...
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What voters need to knowNov 08, 2015 12:00 am - Gov. Chris Christie got the debates exactly right. “If you can't take it on the stage, no matter whether it's fair or unfair ... then how are you going to take running a...
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Budget silliness defies break between politics, administrationNov 06, 2015 12:00 am - In 1887, a young political science professor at Johns Hopkins University wrote an article about the difference between politics and administration in the operation of go...