Opinion Columns
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Three keys to fighting heroin addictionOct 28, 2014 1:01 am - Most people celebrate their 21st birthday by drinking alcohol legally for the first time. For my 21st in 1993, I tried heroin for the first time. All it took was a smal...
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Viewing political corruption more broadlyOct 26, 2014 5:01 am - Earlier this year, veteran political writer Thomas Edsall reported an eyebrow-raising fact about Americans' views toward government. Polling by Gallup, he noted, found t...
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Why don't heroes ever claim their well-deserved title?Oct 26, 2014 5:01 am - Sunday Soapbox. Musings of your neighborhood editor. Heroic: As is almost always the case, people who do heroic things don't call themselves "heroes." "Just doing m...
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Put brakes on gambling expansionOct 26, 2014 1:00 am - It has been two years since the first legal video slot machines were installed in Illinois. In just 24 months more than 18,000 slot machines have been installed at more ...
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What if the court rejects pension reform?Oct 24, 2014 1:01 am - What if? It's the single most important question that Illinois residents should be asking, and candidates for office should be answering. Yet as Election Day approaches,...
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Slusher: Watch out for dirty tricks in final days of campaignOct 22, 2014 11:00 pm - What is it about the most sacred act in the democratic process - voting - that so appeals to the baser instincts of the people seeking the votes? Election shenanigans ar...
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The audacity of Greg OrmanOct 22, 2014 1:01 am - The image some conservatives have of Greg Orman, the wealthy businessman running as an independent against veteran Republican Sen. Pat Roberts here in Kansas, is that Or...
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Blessed be the caregiversOct 22, 2014 1:01 am - A man my age grows up wondering: Could I have hit the beach at Normandy? How would I have handled being trapped near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, thousands of Ch...
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Is Illinois ready for criminal justice reform?Oct 21, 2014 1:01 am - Faced with an Illinois prison population that has grown over 700 percent since the mid-1970s, the General Assembly's new Joint Criminal Justice Reform Committee, thankfu...
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How to close that pay gapOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - Don't ask. Just trust that the system will reward you for your compliance. That is the message Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella delivered last week, when prodded ...