Columns
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Jun 25, 2025 2:45 pm - Guest columnist Martha Diaz Aszkenazy: The US Postal Service faces collapse due to failed policies, so the new Postmaster General has a tough job ahead. Congress must act now to save the agency.
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When the Beach Boys turned into menJun 23, 2025 2:45 pm - Guest columnist : Around 10 years younger than the Beach Boys, I grew up listening to their music. As if I had a choice. The never-ending replays actually gave me a headache.Then one winter day when we had freezing rain, I heard a song that touched my heart.
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O’Donnell: PCA has Cubs fans walking on Wrigley Field sunshineJun 21, 2025 8:36 pm - OH TO BE 23 YEARS OLD, commanding, charismatic and able to flip Major League Baseball games in a single bound. That would be Pete Crow-Armstrong — the Fresh Prince of Wri...
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Kids need online safety solutions that actually workJun 20, 2025 2:45 pm - Nothing should come before keeping our kids safe and healthy. As social media has become an ever-present daily life, with kids and teenagers at the forefront, parents are...
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Tribute to a coach who will never be a footnoteJun 16, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist : A tribute to a Barrington High School girls soccer coach who has led his team to multiple championships but remains intensely focused on constant improvement.
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A theology of compassion (remembering my father)Jun 14, 2025 2:45 pm - Guest columnist Tom Montgomery Fate: I grew up in a small Iowa town, and my dad was the minister at the Congregational church. Like most small-town clerics, he was expected to be a self-assured, virtuous role model, but was, of course, just as human and vulnerable as everyone else.
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PCA’s acronym status proves he’s arrived as baseball’s latest phenomJun 14, 2025 2:42 pm - The first place Cubs act like they belong there and the dynamic Pete Crow Armstrong acts as if none of it is unusual. Whatever awaits over the long summer and the adventures of a pending playoffs is awash among the sheer joy of waiting for PCA’s next at bat, his next stolen base, his next chasing down any ball that thinks it can get past him.
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Two different pictures and a confusion of masksJun 12, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: I’ve seen two very different pictures of journalism and journalists last week. One that is prominent and almost everyone sees. One that is more isolated and rarely rises to the level of the public consciousness.
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Anger, fear and the danger of silence in face of antisemitismJun 11, 2025 4:08 pm - Guest columnist Shira Goodman: When I was growing up, Hebrew School teachers and camp counselors used to tell us that understanding Hebrew and knowing the basics of daily and Sabbath prayer services meant we could walk into a synagogue anywhere in the world and participate. This is no longer the case.
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Jun 07, 2025 2:30 pm - Guest columnist : Illinois must reform its tax and regulatory policies to encourage economic growth rather than continue policies that are leading to an exodus of people and capital.