Opinion Columns
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The enduring benefits of vaccinationMay 07, 2014 5:01 am - Recently I wrote about a type of scientific denialism - often practiced by religious people - that cheats children out of the wonders of modern cosmology and encourages ...
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Preserving our role as a nation of innovatorsMay 06, 2014 5:01 am - "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper." T.S. Eliot wrote in The Hollow Men. It may not be quite so dramatic, but to those in our nation's s...
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Ennui and self-loathing in This TownMay 04, 2014 5:01 am - This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-loathing. Which is to say, this i...
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Enough grumbling, demand action on taxesMay 02, 2014 5:01 am - Another Tax Day has passed without much conversation about how to make our tax system fairer for working families or small businesses. We mostly heard a collective grumb...
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An education challenge for GOPMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a Tea Party group, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in Ame...
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Dealing with scandalous behavior before it becomes a scandalApr 30, 2014 11:00 pm - Donald Sterling's apparent racism isn't exactly a purely suburban story, but with the Bulls in the playoffs — temporarily, sadly — and his story reverberating constantly...
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Hamas' outrageous charterApr 30, 2014 5:01 am - Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day has passed. But then, as far as I'm concerned, it is always Holocaust Remembrance Day - a perpetual and frustratingly futile attempt t...
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Move Illinois to a fairer tax systemApr 30, 2014 5:01 am - This November Illinois voters will get the chance to ratify two potential amendments to the state's Constitution. The first would establish rights for crime victims. The...
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Study the facts on fire department staffing lawApr 29, 2014 1:01 am - When the first statement of a newspaper's editorial is incorrect, the entire premise of the piece is wrong. In the Daily Herald's April 25 editorial opposing the negoti...
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GOP: Choose wisely or reap the whirlwindApr 27, 2014 1:01 am - The Cliven Bundy spectacle in Nevada has provided a Wild West backdrop for our hottest political issues as we gallop toward the midterm elections. Politically, the conf...