Columns
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Tipped workers also deserve ‘full, fair minimum wage’Dec 18, 2024 1:12 pm - Guest columnist Anneliese Jackson: Illinois leaders should end the subminimum wage, ensuring full minimum wage plus tips for equitable pay, improved working conditions and boosted local economy.
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Despite risks, emerging intelligence tools offer glimpse of real benefits for newsDec 13, 2024 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: How emerging AI tools might help newsrooms produce higher quality journalism and allow readers to better consume, interpret, and interact with news content.
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Dec 09, 2024 4:00 am - Guest columnists Martin Lueken and Ann Marie Miller: By ending Invest in Kids program, Illinois policymakers missed opportunity to help needy students, strengthen state finances, and build robust education system.
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North Korea provocations underscore South Korea’s successDec 06, 2024 4:00 am - North Korea’s contribution of combat troops to aid Russia in Ukraine has drawn global attention and headlines, but is only one component of ongoing ominous moves. At the ...
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Holidays are a good time to expand your news tastesDec 05, 2024 4:00 am - Food, glorious food. Of course, it is a subject of interest any time of year, but is there any time when it is more enticing than the year-end holidays? Is there any time...
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This ‘fix’ would harm humane farmingNov 29, 2024 4:00 am - At Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm, we’re keeping close watch on deliberations on the federal Farm Bill. It’s important that policy does not undermine the kind of agricultu...
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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...