Opinion Columns
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Closing of nuclear plants a mistakeNov 14, 2014 4:01 am - Prematurely closing nuclear power plants is a mistake. Early closing of well-operating nuclear power plants, including some of those operated by Exelon in Illinois, is b...
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Rising, but bringing everyone else alongNov 13, 2014 4:01 am - A week after the midterm elections, Republicans are still browsing through the jewelry store of their victories, admiring this bauble and that. Most of their Senate wins...
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Restoring trust is no easy mandateNov 13, 2014 4:01 am - Postelection analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless. In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone that more Democrats would have won if only ...
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Hillary Clinton and dynastiesNov 12, 2014 4:01 am - Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony. She is the presumptive presidential nominee, the likely one, the inevitable one, the one and...
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Citizens United resonates in midtermsNov 12, 2014 4:01 am - Look at it this way: At least the 2014 midterm elections are over. Maybe the most clueless pronouncement ever made by a U.S. Supreme Court justice was Anthony Kennedy's ...
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Obama's 'gifts' to the nationNov 11, 2014 4:01 am - Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as party leader, Democrats are takin...
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GOP at crossroads with HispanicsNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - Republicans are enjoying a well-deserved victory lap. But, when it comes to the touchy subjects of Hispanic outreach and immigration reform, they still seem a tad confus...
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What's an old-timer? and other burning questionsNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - When I started writing this column 15 or so years ago, it was on all things Naperville, ran only in our Naperville edition. And as a longtime Napervillean (lived there 1...
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Some thoughts on governingNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - I have been working in or around government for more than 50 years, and if you asked me to boil down what I've learned to one sentence, it is this: Governing is much har...
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Save lives, boost economy by protecting drug researchNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - University of Illinois researchers have developed a revolutionary new technology that delivers scorpion and bee venom directly to cancer cells, killing them without harm...