Opinion Columns
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GOP's 'brat pack' must do more than winOct 01, 2015 1:00 am - The Republican Party's "Freedom Caucus," which has several less-charitable nicknames on Capitol Hill, is the dog that caught the car. Now what? Having (sort of) unseate...
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Francis' profound personalismSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - Pope Francis has delivered to Congress his State of the Soul address - historically sophisticated, gracefully appropriate, morally ambitious - and I am all for making it...
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Congress must keep its spending promise to Illinois taxpayersSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - Will Congress keep its word? Illinois' senators and representatives are trying to dodge this question, but they'll have to answer it before the year is out. By all accou...
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A scandal of a committeeSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - I have a new hobby. It has nothing to do with balsa wood or fly-fishing, stamps or even books. Instead, I fashion myself as a modern-day Diogenes - he was the guy with t...
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Non-preaching pope encouraged thinking of a higher orderSep 29, 2015 1:00 am - "Oh, so you drank the Kool-Aid," my neighbor superciliously sneered from the stoop he occupies each afternoon to sip wine and critique people's parking skills on our bel...
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Innovators need protection from 'patent trolls'Sep 27, 2015 1:00 am - In my West Loop Chicago neighborhood, $350,000 can buy you a pretty nice condo. Or it can pay for four years of college and three years of law school - in full, no loans...
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40 years later, a reminder cops can be coolSep 25, 2015 11:00 pm - It was 8 p.m. or so on a weeknight. Nothing going on. So my friends and I decided it would be cool to pull into the parking lot of an elementary school, loiter, and see ...
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Many reasons for Illinois' weak PARCC resultsSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Last year, Illinois implemented a new standardized test to assess student achievement. Known as "PARCC" - which stands for "Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for ...
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After being fired, Fiorina shouldn't be hiredSep 24, 2015 1:00 am - I want to say something about Carly Fiorina right at the outset: I don't care if she was a brilliant or awful CEO of Hewlett-Packard. I don't care if her firing was just...
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Slusher: People will talk, but be careful about judgmentsSep 24, 2015 1:00 am - It is ridiculous for a newspaper ever to tell the public not to have an interest in a topic or not to speculate about whether officials are doing their jobs right. Our ...