Opinion Columns
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Get ready for a season of promisesMay 23, 2014 5:01 am - In 1933, newly elected Illinois Gov. Henry Horner took office at the height of the Great Depression. A huge chunk of the state's workforce was unemployed, many schooltea...
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Keeping the Holocaust in memoryMay 22, 2014 5:01 am - Several years ago, I attended the bar mitzvah of a friend's son. Uniquely in my experience - and, I'd bet, most people's experience - all of the boy's four grandparents ...
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Blackhawks should lead out on mascot changeMay 21, 2014 11:00 pm - The controversy surrounding NBA owner Donald Sterling has reignited a discussion of racism in American sports, which, these days, inevitably links to the debate over the...
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Prepare yourself for more of the sameMay 21, 2014 5:01 am - I felt a brief surge of hope about Congress a few weeks ago. It was returning from Easter recess, and Capitol Hill was filled with talk about immigration reform, a minim...
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Love and 'The Normal Heart'May 21, 2014 5:01 am - Eddie called himself a private detective, although all he really did was repossess cars. He would show up around 4 p.m. at the cafe where I worked after school, have his...
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Hillary and Jill went up the hillMay 20, 2014 5:01 am - With The New York Times' sudden dismissal of Executive Editor Jill Abramson and Karl Rove's suggestion that Hillary Clinton might have brain damage, the curtain opened o...
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Our disconnected working classMay 18, 2014 5:01 am - Much about the future health of the republic depends on Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam being wrong. Given the track record of Harvard social scientists, this might ap...
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Fittest Loser contest helps us move the needleMay 18, 2014 5:01 am - That was an eye-catching lead staff writer Jessica Cilella wrote about the South Elgin man who won our Fittest Loser contest. John Bohanek, she noted, "regularly fell vi...
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New learning standards key to skilled workforceMay 16, 2014 5:01 am - Good talent is hard to find. One of the greatest ongoing challenges facing manufacturing is the lack of a skilled workforce. As a small-business owner and manufacturer, ...
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Republicans regroupingMay 15, 2014 5:01 am - The unfolding GOP primary season is clarifying two points: The Republican establishment is back, and it is more conservative than you'd think. In the North Carolina Sena...