Jim Slusher
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A week to reflect on your ability to evaluate newsJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher The Daily Herald is a reliable source of information about suburban communities and state and national issues and events, but you won't find a single pers...
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To persuade is the highest goal of newspaper editorialsJan 13, 2021 10:00 pm - By Jim Slusher Persuasion has been called a "gentle art." More often, people approach it with a fiery hammer. Gentility may not be exactly what we need in these troubled...
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The refreshment of thanksgiving in a wretched yearNov 26, 2020 12:00 am - In this most wretched among wretched years, I am again confronted with the face of death and the limits of acceptability. Normally on Thanksgiving Day, I devote this col...
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This is no time for democracy fatigueNov 19, 2020 12:00 am - NOTE: This article has been updated to correct the dates of filling for the April 6 Consolidated Election. Filing takes place from Monday, Dec. 14, through Monday, D...
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Timely slogan for voters: BewareOct 22, 2020 1:00 am - In election campaign season, it can help to keep in mind this slight modification of a well-known Latin phrase referring to unregulated commercialism: caveat suffragator...
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Added complexities brought changes in how we prepare endorsementsOct 05, 2020 1:00 am - Orchestrating the Daily Herald's production and publication of election coverage and endorsements is complex, even under normal conditions. During a health pandemic, we ...
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When the power of words obscures the search for factsOct 01, 2020 11:00 pm - Is state Rep. Amy Grant a homophobic racist unfit for office? Or is she someone who was set up in a deceitful phone call and then compounded her problems with careless l...
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How COVID-19 has affected visual side of our journalismAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - The novel coronavirus has affected photography in the Daily Herald in two important ways - how we take pictures and video and how we publish them. Most of us at the pape...
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Letter from the editor: Authorities might be silent, but we still seek detailsAug 03, 2020 1:00 am - Early in the morning on Saturday, June 27, something dramatic happened at a house on Picton Road in Roselle. More than a month later, we still don't know much about what...
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Anatomy of an editorial: How group engagement gives paper a singular voiceJul 16, 2020 1:00 am - A writer for an editorial board cannot escape a certain chill of anathema. It is the natural impulse of the essayist or pamphleteer to summon personal instincts, insigh...