Opinion Columns
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The GOP’s purity factionOct 02, 2013 5:00 am - Like many ideological factions, Tea Party activists display a special intensity in fighting the “near enemy” -- other elements on the right that don’t share their tactic...
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Second place on supercomputers not good enoughOct 01, 2013 5:00 am - When the GE Global Research team wanted to develop quieter, more fuel-efficient jet engines, they faced a major problem: They needed to know how changes in the plane’s f...
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Metra improvements not without challengesSep 29, 2013 5:00 am - A lot has been said and written about Metra this summer, but little of it had to do with the 4,400 men and women who work every day to make our trains as safe and as rel...
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Soapboxing on radical-turned-speaker Bill AyersSep 29, 2013 5:00 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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Pageant’s message: Different is dazzlingSep 27, 2013 5:00 am - The days of insecure immigrant students opening up their exotic lunches at a table by themselves are over, because diversity is the new norm — or at least it is the new ...
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Numbers don’t tell whole story in news decisionsSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - In the complex practice of employing news judgment, the role of numbers is not always as obvious as you might expect. Twenty-six shooting victims in a Chicago weekend ma...
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Francis the troublemakerSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Pope Francis’ blunt, conversational, subversive, disarming, humane, self-critical interview in the Jesuit publication America amounted to a sort of extemporaneous encycl...
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Pope’s message is for liberals, conservatives alikeSep 25, 2013 5:00 am - “Heal wounds, warm hearts.” That’s what one sinner said the Catholic Church needs to do in the world today. That sinner, as he describes himself, happened to be the pope...
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The terror of our timesSep 25, 2013 5:00 am - As always, it was the middle of the night and I heard the window open and felt the breeze on my face. It was my grandfather, long dead but an occasional visitor from God...
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Waiting for ObamacareSep 24, 2013 5:00 am - News consumers by now have absorbed the message that Republicans are going to defund Obamacare, shut down the government, ruin the economy and starve the poor. This is ...