Opinion Columns
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An appalling trivialization of lifeJul 21, 2015 5:25 am - WASHINGTON - At first, it seemed like an Internet hoax. A doctor, over a glass of wine and a salad, coldly describes the extraction and monetization of fetal body parts...
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Why not give more if use food stamps for vegetables?Jul 21, 2015 5:00 am - TAKOMA PARK, MD. — Sometimes a simple idea makes so much sense, you have to wonder: Why didn't folks think of this sooner? Here's an excellent example: Increase the valu...
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Readiness efforts key to ensuring college successJul 20, 2015 1:00 am - Community colleges serve a critical role in today's educational climate. They are the gateway to achieving advanced degrees, and to gaining successful employment. Accor...
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Silicon Valley emerges as a political forceJul 19, 2015 1:00 am - When Jeb Bush visited Silicon Valley last week, the Republican candidate was visiting the heart of a Democratic state that few expect to be contested in the 2016 preside...
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A no-name in South CarolinaJul 19, 2015 1:00 am - In South Carolina these days, no one speaks his name. The 21-year-old man-boy, who allegedly murdered nine people and incited unity instead of the race war he hoped for,...
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We need both insiders and outsiders in CongressJul 17, 2015 1:00 am - Members of Congress get categorized in all sorts of ways. They're liberal or conservative; Republican or Democrat; interested in domestic affairs or specialists in forei...
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Slusher: The Emanuel Nine and the shortening of small fantasiesJul 16, 2015 1:00 am - We use the name of a man who killed nine people in a church once because we have to. He is a person and has a face and its image is spread across the vast realm of the I...
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Proposed: A meeting to stop the bleeding in ChicagoJul 16, 2015 1:00 am - Englewood, Gresham, West Lawndale, Humboldt Park, South Chicago. Where have I heard those neighborhood names before? Oh yes, I do remember some of them. I was born and r...
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The blunt language of historyJul 15, 2015 1:00 am - Georgia seceded from the Union in January 1861, and spelled out the reasons with a statement that's 3,318 words long, including 35 references to "slave" and "slavery." S...
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County can keep improving without harmful sales taxJul 14, 2015 1:00 am - We've had this debate before, and my opinion hasn't changed since our last go-round under Todd Stroger with raising the sales tax on the hardworking taxpayers of Cook Co...