Opinion Columns
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Peace talks give cause for hope and skepticismDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - After observing from Israel the just-completed Annapolis Summit, I think there's no better question to ponder than this: is the glass half-full or half-empty? Depending ...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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No truly 'green' city should flounder so over nature's basicsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - I felt sorry for the man. Elgin City Councilman Mike Powers wasn't too happy with a recent column in which I'd suggested a big budget goose egg in public works manpower ...
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Research vindicates Bush on his position on stem cell researchNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - "If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." -- James A. Thomson A decade ago,...
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Vivid contrasts in style in battle between Giuliani, RomneyNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - BEDFORD, N.H. -- Call them Mr. Rough and Mr. Smooth. Or maybe Mr. Nasty and Mr. Nice. The intense battle between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney for supremacy in the Jan. ...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...
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Hope for peace not shared by two mothers who lost their daughtersNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - On March 29, 2002, an 18-year-old woman walked into a Jerusalem supermarket and blew herself up. One of her victims was a woman just a year younger than herself. The two...
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From bathroom attendant to JFK-era whistleblowerNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - The holidays are always a difficult stretch for Abraham Bolden. Not only did his wife die at this time of year, but so did his president and so did a little of bit of hi...
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Conservatives can't stray from mission of limits on governmentNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - In the 1920s and '30s, the American left was riven by multiple factions furiously representing different flavors of socialism, each accusing the others of revisionism an...
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A growing school investment providing very little to justify itNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - If this newspaper's School Finance 101 series showed nothing else, it was that Illinois taxpayers have not been pinching pennies on education. Since 1996, state taxpayer...