Opinion Columns
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Hunting for a miracle on global warmingAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - In recognition that Internet questionnaires get more eyeballs than earnest columns on energy policy, here is today's quiz on obscure presidential history: When President...
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Seamless pathways critical to cutting college costsAug 17, 2015 1:00 am - In 1962, my identical twin brother Steve and I turned 12. It was a big day around the Ender household. Dad took us to lunch and a movie and we came home to a surprise pa...
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Powerful message from an imperfect messengerAug 16, 2015 1:00 am - Earlier this month, billionaire Charles Koch had a surprising message: In a speech to his fellow conservatives, he said politicians must end taxpayer-funded subsidies an...
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Elgin's dangerous Chihuahua, Toby Keith's bar, other news from dog days of summerAug 16, 2015 1:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. All-about-dogs-more-or-less edition. One Daily Herald editor offers semi-bite-sized bits of wit and wisdom on news from the suburbs in the past week. ...
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Blame dysfunction on politicians' refusal to meet state's promisesAug 14, 2015 1:00 am - What's the most disturbing aspect of the budget stalemate in Springfield? Surprisingly, it's not all the frustrating rhetorical posturing that elevates political advanta...
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Meacham ramp work is a disasterAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - The village of Schaumburg and the Illinois Tollway get a failing grade - really a zero - for their handling of the construction of new tollway ramps on Meacham Road. Fo...
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Amid Trump mess, GOP candidates shine at RedStateAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - It's likely the Donald Trump melodrama is the only news you've heard from the RedState Gathering of conservatives in Atlanta. But something unusual happened here, and it...
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A year after Ferguson, little has changedAug 13, 2015 1:00 am - To establish my credentials, here's an insignificant event that happened to my wife and me a bit before last year's tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri. We'd taken our daily ...
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Help Trump marginalize himselfAug 12, 2015 1:00 am - In the first Republican debate, the klieg light that Donald Trump always carries around with him revealed four or five presidential candidates who, under the right circu...
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All on Clinton's emails that's fit -- or not -- to printAug 12, 2015 1:00 am - The New York Times on Sunday printed 2,973 words explaining how the fuss over Hillary Clinton's emails began and how it developed and what it means and why the newspaper...