Columns
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Our seniors cannot afford cuts to MedicaidApr 12, 2025 2:30 pm - Guest columnist Angela Noland: Nursing home closures and elderly left homeless? How Medicaid cuts by Congress could create a healthcare crisis for seniors.
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Community effort aims to prepare our youngest for the futureApr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Amber Peters: A new program in Elgin brings organizations and families together to boost critical skills in kids under 5 across language, math and a physical abilities, using prompts and a texting platform.
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South Korea provides lesson in successful democracyApr 10, 2025 3:17 pm - The troubled tenure of South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol formally came to an end on April 4. The nation’s Constitutional Court officially ruled that he had exceeded h...
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Employee ownership made my retirement possible; let’s make every worker an ownerApr 10, 2025 2:47 pm - Most Americans have little to nothing saved for retirement, and retiring early, like Steven Schmidt did, is out of the question. Schmidt credits his good fortune to the employee stock ownership plan at the company where he worked for 41 years.
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On paying attention — to the news and in classApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: With Trump's tariffs, suddenly dusty history lessons seem relevant; we're rushing to study economics too. But beware confirmation bias. Read widely, stay open-minded.
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Protecting Medicaid's promise for people with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesApr 07, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Rich Bobby: Medicaid cuts threaten vital support systems for people with disabilities, forcing impossible choices about critical services and unraveling progress towards independent living.
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A light meditation on a seasonal public spectacleApr 03, 2025 3:23 pm - Columnist Jim Slusher: The spring spectacle of NCAA tournament basketball may be madness, but it is surely an exhilarating madness to watch play out on our television screens, to share on social media and to analyze in the newspaper.
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On reading the news …Mar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Tom Montgomery Fate: As news becomes more polarized and biased, it undermines the authority and integrity of the free press, making it harder for people to determine what is factual.
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County is ensuring language access as a human rightMar 29, 2025 2:30 pm - Guest columnists Toni Preckwinkle and Josina Morita: Cook County is dedicated to language access for its diverse population, seeing it as an issue of respect and dignity, not just translation, and is expanding services to be more inclusive.
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The governing begins Wednesday, but first … ‘the silly season’Mar 27, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: Some lingering thoughts as Election Day approaches.