Jim Slusher
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All right, let’s talk about the weather ... and how we cover itJan 11, 2024 9:04 am - “Ah, the weather,” a famous saying begins. “Everyone always talks about it but no one ever does anything about it.” Of course, the humor in that remark lies in the fact t...
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Evil must be confronted and stoppedJan 07, 2024 11:14 am - I see in the media and even on the editorial page protests about the citizens of Gaza and how they’re being treated by the Israelis. I wasn’t born before World War II, bu...
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Today’s editorial cartoonJan 06, 2024 3:45 am -
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Uncomfortable questions that might help us understand issues in the newsJan 05, 2024 12:15 am - When I read many news stories about controversies these days, I often make a judgment supporting one side or another and then ask myself a question that, also often, make...
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Why it's important to stop and honor sacred datesDec 07, 2023 12:00 am - Today marks a sacred date in American history. It is not the only one. Why do we take pains to, in some fashion, acknowledge it in the public press every year? I have no...
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A day to remember there are newsworthy blessings every dayNov 23, 2023 12:00 am - "The world is so full of a number of things," begins the famous Robert Louis Stevenson line from "A Child's Garden of Verses" that I'm sure you can finish without my hel...
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When a political cartoon, or any idea, strikes a nerveNov 14, 2023 12:00 am - For nearly the past week, a torrent of complaint messages have inundated my email along with that of other Daily Herald editors and executives and of our fencepost@daily...
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Where skinny dipping meets the skinny on news decisionsNov 09, 2023 12:00 am - I have a pretty good feeling that if I told you this column were about the best places to go skinny dipping in Illinois, you'd be more inclined to read it, even if that ...
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Covering an increasingly vast news, entertainment, sports landscapeNov 02, 2023 1:00 am - Maybe you noticed. There's a World Series going on. Well, maybe it's over now. As I write on Wednesday afternoon, the Texas Rangers have a 3-1 advantage over the Arizona...
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Beware the propaganda lurking within the fog of warOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - In his 19th century treatise "On War," military strategist and historian Carl von Clausewitz offers this observation that followers of news about war in the 21st century...