Opinion Columns
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Disrupting the American DreamJan 21, 2015 12:01 am - Mercedes-Benz wants to develop a driverless car. Google already has one. This is exceedingly bad news for auto body shops, ambulance-chasing lawyers and others. Soon, tr...
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Design of the divine?Jan 20, 2015 12:01 am - The biographer Eric Metaxas recently made waves by arguing that modern science increasingly "makes the case for God." Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he framed some ...
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Should election process join 21st Century?Jan 18, 2015 12:01 am - This is the part of being a newspaperperson that probably no one relishes. Candidates who want to be your local mayors, city council/village board members or serve on yo...
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Statistics say to avoid tax cuts, but fund schoolsJan 18, 2015 12:01 am - In his inaugural address, Gov. Bruce Rauner made it clear that improving the Illinois economy is high on his agenda, averring "We need a booming economy that is pro-grow...
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Colleges must be wary of promised funding for free tuitionJan 16, 2015 12:01 am - Most should be aware of President Obama's announcement last week regarding an initiative to offer free community college tuition to all students nationwide. Little is k...
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Slusher: Will Sanguinetti really talk to media 'very soon'?Jan 15, 2015 4:01 am - There was something in the last line of Erin Hegarty's Daily Herald story Tuesday on the swearing-in of Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti that perhaps would furrow the brow on...
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Washington's psychological polarizationJan 14, 2015 12:01 am - As the 114th Congress begins in earnest, there are a number of things - such as tax and immigration reform and trade agreements - that political adults would like to get...
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Hyping Obama's Paris failJan 14, 2015 12:01 am - If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassador to join world leaders Sunday ...
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Obama's slap at FranceJan 13, 2015 12:01 am - In Paris on Sunday, the United States really led from behind - so far behind that President Obama and other important U.S. officials stayed stateside as 40 other world l...
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The politics of homicideJan 11, 2015 12:01 am - Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. William Blake expressed ...