Jim Davis
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The woman who takes your pictures is just grateful to be hereDec 10, 2016 1:00 pm - Bev Horne lost her voracious appetite for reading, world travel, even riding her bike. Yet that, she says, is a pretty good trade-off for being on the right side of the ...
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Great day to be a Cubs fanDec 04, 2016 12:00 am - M. Eileen Brown, the day after setting up tables and chairs in our cafeteria to create a Disney-style queue for the expected crush of humanity, asked for the crowd's att...
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Davis: Here's an election law legislators should passNov 26, 2016 1:00 pm - Just as you breathed a sigh of relief for surviving the grueling ordeal of this past election, here comes another - and much more difficult - one. At least for us. Filin...
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Bells and whistles make rebuilt Jane one smart cookieNov 19, 2016 1:00 pm - This sucker has it all: A mother ship, diverging diamond, wireless speed sensors, dozens of cameras and weather stations. It will save time and money, and fuel the econo...
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Notes on cub reporters and World Series stress textingNov 06, 2016 6:20 am - jdavis@dailyherald.com So, on the morning after the Cubs' victory, I'm on my way to work, and I call my buddy Joel to kibitz a bit about the game. Somewhere during the c...
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Clinton, Trump well down list of 'inspirational' leadersOct 29, 2016 2:00 pm - One vote for Hillary Clinton. One for Gary Johnson. One for Donald Trump. But 17 for Pope Francis and 10 each for Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. These were among the r...
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What to do when Olympic star is caught in rain, traffic?Oct 15, 2016 2:00 pm - It was a news crisis of epic proportions! At our afternoon news meeting, it was decided that a local appearance by Olympic darling Simone Biles was a story that warrante...
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Micro-preemie, older caregiver crises offer a ray of hopeOct 07, 2016 11:00 pm - It's easy to forget, in ways big and small, that people really pay attention to our stories. And, especially in these turbulent times, it's easy to forget they can do so...
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Endorsement candidates: check your guns, baseball batsOct 01, 2016 2:00 pm - As my colleague Jim Slusher pointed out the other day, we're enmeshed in the process of determining which candidates we'll endorse for elected local offices - from U.S. ...
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New crime column: Deadly crosswalks, hulking copsSep 17, 2016 2:00 pm - Seems that suburbanites love to leadfoot around town, stopping only, and not always immediately, when the light turns red. Crosswalks? What might those be? People grew f...