Opinion Columns
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Small businesses keep communities strongNov 29, 2013 4:00 am - Gallup did a survey this summer. It asked people how much confidence they had in various institutions. According to the survey, 36 percent said they trusted the presiden...
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Good news stories abound throughout the yearNov 28, 2013 4:00 am - It seems as though there is something in human nature that draws us to bad news, to the sensational, the terrifying. As a result, we often most remember those kinds of n...
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Talking turkey about Bleak FridayNov 27, 2013 9:45 am - For children, Christmastime may be the favorite holiday, even if their families don’t celebrate the birth of Christ. The twinkling lights and aura of magic that suddenly...
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Dogged journalism a blessing, not a curseNov 27, 2013 4:00 am - Let’s start with the obvious: A democracy needs intelligence agencies. It needs to know what’s happening in the world — and understand the plans of allies and enemies — ...
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It’s the future to fearNov 27, 2013 4:00 am - For those who think that history is about the past, consider what’s before us today. Iran has agreed to an itsy-bitsy deal that will slow its march toward a possible nuc...
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Fix the website and the ACA succeedsNov 26, 2013 4:00 am - Bad news for CLNN, the Chicken Little News Network — that is, just about all of them lately: In states which have set up their own Affordable Care Act marketplaces, enro...
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C.S. Lewis: Rescuing desireNov 26, 2013 4:00 am - In appreciations of the writer and Cambridge don C.S. Lewis, it is often noted that he died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was murdered. Beyond a confusi...
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Our political editor’s firsthand brush with Washington (Ill.) disasterNov 24, 2013 4:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is my Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly-stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shamel...
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One of a kind-nessNov 24, 2013 4:00 am - Meet Simile and Sui Generis. Simile, to refresh memories, is a favorite rhetorical device of writers that compares two essentially unlike things that nonetheless have si...
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Clinging to a memory that still ‘tingles’Nov 21, 2013 3:00 pm - Except for three presidential icons — Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — no president has been analyzed, interpreted and reinterpreted more than J...