Columns
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The varied reporting at the sunrise of a new school yearAug 15, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: As a new school year begins, the Daily Herald pledges continued comprehensive coverage of suburban schools beyond just first-day photos and sports, covering diverse issues and achievements.
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Notes from history on an Alaska summitAug 13, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Arthur I. Cyr: The phrase “North to Alaska” is the title of a popular song performed by Johnny Horton, rockabilly singer of the 1950s, and of a 1960 film with John Wayne. Both song and film are earthy and gritty, emphasizing the uncertainty of life. That sentiment is appropriate to open discussion of the Alaska summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the United States.
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Taking a little time out for some not-so-magic wordsAug 09, 2025 4:30 pm - It’s August. It’s hot. There’s rancor everywhere around us. Let’s take a break this week and cool off with something light. It starts with a letter to the editor, a newsp...
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Things you can learn in newspaper stories about something elseJul 31, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: From time to time, I like to take off on a routine inspired by the late, great Chicago Sun-Times columnist Sydney J. Harris, who often found the most intriguing facts in unexpected places and compiled them into columns under the theme “things I learned while looking up something else.
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Don’t let innovation be a casualty of policyJul 30, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Mark Denzler: The EPIC Act aims to correct an imbalance in drug development that favors complex biologics over convenient, affordable pill-based treatments
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Illinois Healthcare on the Brink: Why We Must Fight the Federal Medicaid CutsJul 24, 2025 4:15 pm - The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding cuts to healthcare in Illinois. The unprecedente...
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Technology points up importance of ethicsJul 23, 2025 4:21 pm - One of my favorite journalism war stories dates back more than two decades but grows more relevant every day.
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Illinois citizen lobbyists will advocate in Washington for climate policyJul 21, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Joe Tedino: Citizens Climate Lobby volunteers from Illinois will meet with Congress members this week to advocate for policies supporting affordable, reliable clean electricity generation and transmission.
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Protecting Medicaid: A lifeline for many IllinoisansJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Anna Moeller: President Trump's budget bill will severely cut Medicaid, risking coverage for 330,000 state residents and closure of rural hospitals.
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A lesson on what journalism really does in a democracyJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: If you think that the lesson of Sage Gilliland’s exposé at Prospect High School is that good journalism helps bend that famous “arc of the moral universe” toward justice, I have something a little different to suggest.
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