Opinion Columns
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Preaching to the choirSep 21, 2012 5:32 pm - Some people see a problem, and look for a solution. Others look at a problem, and see an opportunity. If you’ve ever wondered why some issues never get resolved, one re...
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Buckle up for the robot revolutionSep 21, 2012 5:00 am - Robots don’t take bathroom breaks, and that’s one reason why, all else being equal, they may make better factory workers than the human version. But all else is getting ...
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The broad view on young people’s disdain for newsSep 20, 2012 5:00 am - To us in print journalism, it’s hard enough to hear that young people don’t think newspapers are important. But there’s something more ominous on the horizon that extend...
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Cyborg MittSep 20, 2012 5:00 am - What’s a day without a leaked video, a scandal, an unintended sliver of truth? OMG: Mitt Romney doesn’t care about the votes of the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pa...
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The price of leading from behindSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - What lessons can be learned from events in Libya? That nothing good will come out of the Arab Spring? That Arabs are volatile, easily excitable and prone to acting out? ...
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Standing up for teachersSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them. It has become fashionable to blame all of society’s manifold sins and wickedness on “teachers u...
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The tangled web of conflicting rightsSep 18, 2012 5:00 am - Elaine Huguenin, who with her husband operates Elane Photography in New Mexico, asks only to be let alone. But instead of being allowed a reasonable zone of sovereignty ...
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In it for himself or for America?Sep 18, 2012 5:00 am - You’d think, after nearly a lifetime in politics, which began as a little girl starting petitions, I would have figured out how to respond to a tragedy. You’d think I’d ...
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Lombard at loggerheads on landing a leaderSep 17, 2012 8:00 am - I give you the opening quote to staff writer Marie Wilson’s story about the Lombard village board’s inability to select an interim leader to fill out the remainder of Vi...
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Close the mortgage-deduction loopholeSep 16, 2012 5:00 am - Letting homeowners deduct interest paid on their mortgages from taxable income makes no sense. It encourages taking on more debt, discriminates against renters, subsidiz...