Opinion Columns
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Are you smarter than a city council candidate?Mar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Attention Napervilleans, candidates, others interested in the local electoral process. Here's a pop quiz. Part I: Can you name the people who hold these key jobs: Police...
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Annoying, yes, but 'sunshine' makes a good democracyMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - If you've followed the Daily Herald very closely this week, you know that the Wheaton Warrenville school district is fighting in the state Supreme Court for the right to...
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Stewart smacks the wrong messengerMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he's wrong, as he was about the financial media, particu...
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Obama critics, friends signal honeymoon's endMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Two months into his presidency, it is far too soon to make any judgments about Barack Obama's prospects. All we really know is that he has assembled the rudiments of an ...
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To use embryos without limit is wrongMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony to overturn the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued...
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A towering monument for six forgotten victims of corruptionMar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - God willing, one day former Gov. George Ryan will be out of prison and return to some of his favorite things in life, such as lunch with his wife Lura Lynn at Gibson's o...
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Rushbo is no gift to women or GOPMar 14, 2009 11:00 pm - I was going to give this a good leaving alone. But there I was flying home from a mellow family visit when El Rushbo filled - and I do mean filled - the screen before m...
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Keeping it real in storm of bad economic reportsMar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - In reporting on the Great Recession of 2009, Chicken Little and Pollyanna Whittier are more than the stuff of children's fairy tales. They are relevant, thought-provokin...
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Hands-on school chief has cash for school reformMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Arne Duncan has an opportunity to do more for a generation of youngsters than any education secretary in history, and my strong sense is that he will make the most of it...
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A letter from Paul Harvey... or was it?Mar 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A letter from Paul Harvey has been sitting on my desk for more than a year. I was holding onto the letter for the right time to include in a column. Since the legendary ...