Jim Baumann
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The Daily Herald's Election 2020 website is up, with a new twistSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Odds are pretty good that if you're reading this you have applied for a mail-in ballot for November's election. That ballot should be in your mailbox any day now. If yo...
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Grammar Moses: If I were a rich manSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - "I have a problem with the words 'were' and 'was,'" writes reader Linda Cohen. "'If I was rich' or 'If I were rich.' Please help with that." Let me understand the questi...
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Grammar Moses: 'Caregiver' or 'caretaker'? Who's caring for what?Sep 05, 2020 1:00 am - Is it better to give than to take? Jan Hollen writes: "Can you help us determine when to use 'caregiver' and when to use 'caretaker'? I always thought a 'caregiver' giv...
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Policy Corner: Why data is important in our reportingSep 03, 2020 1:00 am - For a journalist, there is nothing quite like having data to support your reporting. He-said/she-said stories sometimes are unavoidable. Who is a reader to believe? Data...
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Good News Sunday: Miniature golf event raises funds for Des Plaines food pantryAug 23, 2020 5:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published by the Daily Herald during the previous week: Water rushing down the s...
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Grammar Moses: If you read this column, I feel your painAug 22, 2020 1:00 am - When was the last time you went to your local drugstore to buy an empathy card? I bet you never thought about the distinction between “empathy” and “sympathy” that way b...
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Grammar Moses: Everyone knows it's Windy when you bellow about billowingAug 15, 2020 1:00 am - I was born in Wisconsin - the land of stop-and-go lights, bubblers and squeaky cheese. My ties to the land north of the Cheddar Curtain have never been severed, owing to...
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Grammar Moses: The majority of you are going to get the point of this headlineAug 08, 2020 1:00 am - Judging by overheard conversations and what I read, today's topic bears repeating. "I have a question about which is the correct verb to use when the subject, or object,...
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Policy Corner: When we name crime victimsAug 03, 2020 1:00 am - We are all curious, which is one reason we read newspapers. I'm sure you've had occasion to read a news story and wanted more detail than the writer offered. Sometimes t...
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Get me a doctor. I'm having contractions.Aug 01, 2020 1:00 am - Hi, my name is Jim, and I'm a prescriptivist. There ought to be a self-help organization for those of us who cling desperately to the language that was beaten into us - ...