Opinion Columns
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Covering championship euphoria to the utmostOct 15, 2015 1:00 am - Go, gulp, Cubs! Heh. Heh. That's not easy for me, as a White Sox fan, to say. I still consider one of my chief failings as a parent to be that I raised three Cubs fans. ...
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Trump, Farrakhan speak language of the pitchforkOct 14, 2015 1:00 am - Why Donald Trump bothered to issue an economic program is beyond me. It has some good things in it, like raising the tax on carried interest, but no one really cares abo...
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Dist. 211 chief: Feds stymie schools' creative transgender solutionsOct 13, 2015 11:00 pm - This newspaper published an editorial Wednesday calling for creative alternatives for meeting the needs of transgender high school students in boys' and girls' locker ro...
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Economic illiteracy's imminent dangerOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Stagnant wages are a key issue in the presidential election, and they should be. Lawmakers in both parties currently have a chance to go beyond campaign promises and sup...
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Don't do it, Paul RyanOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - The worst job in the world, it turns out, isn't the U.S. presidency but speaker of the House of Representatives. "It's where you go to die," as one veteran Hill watcher...
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The Kemp Way is still an optionOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Other than in its original application, most exercises in WWXD - "What would X do?" with X being, say, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr., or Churchill - are less than u...
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Put drug treatment into national conversationOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was President Clinton's crime adviser, he was so enthusiastic about Four-Star General/Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey's proposal to increase dr...
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Heroin, mental health: Stories that don't endOct 10, 2015 2:00 pm - "If our lives were a movie, if our lives were a book/It'd be longer than I could defend/'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop/But stories don't end." ...
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Parents as respectful witnesses as child's gender unfoldsOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - Eleven years ago, I moved back to my native town of Arlington Heights to raise my children and teach private music lessons. When my oldest child was two years old, she t...
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How far will Clinton fall before Democrats panic?Oct 08, 2015 1:00 am - In a recent Wall Street Journal poll, the number of Americans who say they have a very positive opinion of Hillary Clinton hit its lowest point in the years since she wa...