Jim Slusher
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Letter to our readers: Introducing the Daily Herald's new climate change reporterMay 10, 2022 8:00 am - For years, the Daily Herald has considered climate change among the most important and most urgent topics of our time. In coming months, we'll take our coverage to a new...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: My iftar and 'a new reality' that benefits everyoneApr 07, 2022 1:00 am - I participated in an iftar this week. Beyond the fact that I am not Muslim, that is not a particularly noteworthy announcement, but the experience did lead me to reflect...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Caring about every word has always been 'something to think about'Mar 31, 2022 1:00 am - Over the course of a long career, you form memories. Sometimes you want to share them just because they make you smile. Sometimes there is current value even beyond that...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Making room for a broader letters forumMar 24, 2022 1:00 am - "Letters, we get letters. We get stacks and stacks of letters," went a jingle for a comedy bit on the old "Late Show with David Letterman." We get them here at the Daily...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: A crisis for newspapers has produced benefits for readersMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - Political opponents have enjoyed taking Rahm Emanuel to task for his famous call to never let a crisis "go to waste," but the former Chicago mayor and current U.S. ambas...
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Even history's 'first draft' needs to include contextMar 10, 2022 12:00 am - When people refer to newspapers as, in the words of a famous phrase, "the first draft of history," they probably are thinking most about the history part. They should no...
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From the Editor: Our experts entering a new phase of COVID-19 coverageMar 07, 2022 12:00 am - Marni Pyke covered her first coronavirus press conference on Jan. 24, 2020. Chicago Health Commissioner Allison Arwady said officials were taking the disease "very serio...
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Cynicism and skepticism in the run-up to global conflictFeb 24, 2022 12:00 am - We talk often around the Daily Herald about the importance of distinguishing between cynicism and skepticism. The distinction seems especially timely in these dangerous ...
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The goal of portraying diversity in the suburbsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - There was a time not so long ago in newspapering when about the only way readers would see the face of a Black person or other minority in the paper, and especially on t...
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Searching for truth in the vocabulary of democracyJan 06, 2022 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher Long before lyricist Don Raye put words to the music of Al Jacobs in 1940 to create the anthem "This Is My Country," we already were arguing over what Ame...