Columns
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Taking time to give thanks for the ‘high ideals’ that make the newsNov 28, 2024 4:00 am - Take a second to think of the news stories that captured your attention in the past week. What were they? Endless complaints about the winners and losers on the national ...
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Taxing services would be start to fixing state’s structural deficitNov 22, 2024 4:00 am - It’s politically difficult to get tax policy right for one simple reason: No one really enjoys paying taxes, so most politicians disdain the subject. Paradoxically, sound...
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JFK and our world todayNov 21, 2024 11:50 am - The president of the United States travels to Texas to mitigate factional strife in his Democratic Party, and on Nov. 22, 1963, is gunned down on a Dallas street. Two day...
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The joy of a story for what it isn’t, and for what it isNov 21, 2024 4:00 am - It is a story of redemption. It is a story of faith. It is a story of determination and of persistence and of community. It is also noteworthy for what it is not. Yes, t...
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To the Latino community on Trump's electionNov 18, 2024 4:00 am - I knew my Aunt Lupita had gone right-wing. My aunt who in the ‘80s urged us go without grapes, (“las uvas — César Chávez said not to eat them!” And then Reagan eating the...
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Endorsements and the voters’ final sayNov 14, 2024 4:00 am - In the late stages of the General Election campaign, a not-entirely minor controversy bubbled to the surface when the owners of two major metropolitan dailies — the Los A...
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Monopoly power is less dangerous today than in the pastNov 07, 2024 9:39 am - Big government is going after big business — again. This time, tech giant Google has faced two federal prosecutions, almost simultaneously. In October, a trial began on c...
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It’s time to address the Illinois mental health crisisNov 07, 2024 9:39 am - As students in Illinois and across the country settle in to their fall routines, families are approaching a tipping point in the mental health crisis — and leaders are wo...
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Managing expectations in the new vote-counting environmentNov 04, 2024 4:00 am - At long last, we find ourselves at the eve of Election Day, and this year more than most, I am drawn to reflect on how different our expectations have to be regarding whe...
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Can we find a way above and beyond all this trash talk in politics?Oct 31, 2024 4:00 am - In Sunday’s “Our view” editorial, our Editorial Board reflected in some detail on the importance of decency in leadership. Events of the past week or so have me thinking ...