Columns
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Facts Matter: Canada isn’t banning older vehicles from its roadwaysMay 09, 2025 10:42 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that FEMA has run out of money because of spending on migrants, Donald Trump is pictured wading through floodwater and more.
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Illinoisans are sick of new taxes; reject payroll taxMay 09, 2025 11:37 am - As new tariffs threaten to push up prices, Illinois’ punishing tax climate already is stretching many residents’ and businesses’ budgets.
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Batavia Depot Museum marks 50 years since opening in restored train stationMay 09, 2025 5:00 am - In 1973, Batavia's train depot was moved to its current location, sparking redevelopment. Its 50th anniversary as the Batavia Depot Museum is celebrated in a new exhibit about the depot's history.
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The good, bad and ugly in Trump's new budgetMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Trump's 2026 budget proposes deep domestic cuts but sustains bloated spending on defense and security. Despite small-government rhetoric, it fails to curb debt drivers like entitlements.
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Cheers for Sen. Thom TillisMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Can we please forgive Trae Taylor for a momentary lapse in judgment?May 08, 2025 11:18 am - Yes, Carmel Catholic sophomore quarterback Trae Taylor made a poor decision last week. But can we please just forgive him?
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Silvy: Williams needs some tough love to teach him how to work in the NFLMay 08, 2025 6:00 am - Ryan Poles claimed at the combine that Caleb Williams has a great work ethic but needed to learn the difference of how to work in an NFL week as opposed to a college football week. My question is, why wasn’t this addressed in season? Why didn’t Poles have someone fix it in real time?
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Biden's decline: The inside story and the outside storyMay 08, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: The White House tried hiding Biden's senility through denials and attacking critics, but the public could see his confusion and freezing at events. Now, more details emerging on lengths taken to conceal the situation.
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The complicated, unproductive search for ‘the narrative’May 08, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: When I taught high school journalism back in the 1970s, it wasn’t hard to lean on famous quotes that attempt to summarize some formula for deciding what deserves to be reported and how. But the truth today - as in the past really - is that news judgment cannot be compacted into a single clever phrase.
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Bartlett native Robinson Cook is the MVP of League One Volleyball in year oneMay 07, 2025 7:47 pm - In the midst of a “crazy year,” St. Francis High School graduate, Bartlett native and Olympian Kelsey Robinson Cook was named most valuable player of the start-up women’s volleyball league, League One Volleyball.