Columns
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Sarley: The pleasures of a visit to the Upper Peninsula and fishing Lake SuperiorJul 23, 2025 10:20 am - Every year I take a trip with my family to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is one of the most perfect places I have ever been to in my life.
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Bussers are the unsung heroes of restaurant industryJul 23, 2025 9:03 am - What do Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Chris Rock, Johnny Depp, Langston Hughes, Kathy Griffin, Dick Cavett, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh have in common, besides their fame and notoriety? They were all bussers in restaurants before they became famous.
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Fewer ingredients makes a simple broccoli salad even easierJul 23, 2025 5:30 am - In 2018, Don Mauer shared his favorite broccoli salad recipe. It included 11 ingredients and several steps, such as blanching the broccoli as well as cooking and chopping bacon before it’s added to the salad. This version trims it down to seven ingredients. Bonus: No stove required.
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NV5 Invitational Championship returning to GlenviewJul 22, 2025 6:42 pm - The NV5 Invitational Championship returns this week to Glenview.
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Team Trump Has Smart Take on Cutting Spending -- No Such Thing as Too SmallJul 22, 2025 5:34 pm - One of the things Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought likes about working for President Donald Trump is that there's no item that's "too small" to rate the president's attention.
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‘Noah’: A Riveting Production of the Biblical StoryJul 22, 2025 5:23 pm - My church recently celebrated our pastor's 75th birthday with a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to view the musical "Noah," produced by Sight & Sound Theatres.
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O’Donnell: Listing only some of the ways this Bears season could get weirdJul 22, 2025 2:39 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Ten things that will juice the Bears’ season.
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A rare and encouraging rollback of government handoutsJul 22, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy:
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So much for the rapists and murderersJul 22, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Five (more) fascinating IHSA recordsJul 21, 2025 7:09 pm - This week’s High Five presents five more fascinating IHSA records.