Jim Slusher
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Here's how to make your voice heard on electionsAug 25, 2016 1:00 am - With Election Day now barely more than two months away, our letters columns soon will be teeming with the passions of citizens hoping to influence the votes of their fri...
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Slusher: On this, the Trump watchers have gone too farAug 11, 2016 1:00 am - I am a strong believer in free speech, and I am not easily offended by words or ideas, especially from nationally syndicated pundits. But I spiked a syndicated column th...
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Slusher: Expansion reflects, reinforces commitment to communityAug 04, 2016 1:00 am - The quote that is probably best known when referring to the Daily Herald's mission is Hosea Paddock's objective to "Fear God, tell the truth and make money" that tops ou...
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Making sure rhetoric is not 'out of whack'Jul 21, 2016 1:00 am - I was casting about vainly for a powerful and appropriate lead to a column about perspective and police-community relations, when what should fall out of cyberspace but,...
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Anatomy of a front page designed as news events unfoldJul 14, 2016 1:00 am - When editors were mapping out last Friday's print editions in our Thursday afternoon news meeting, we faced an option regarding the issue of police shootings. Wire news ...
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Slusher: About Wednesday's front-page editorialJun 27, 2016 11:00 pm - On Wednesday, the Daily Herald is doing something we haven't done in more than three decades, if ever. We're publishing our editorial opinion on the front-page of the ne...
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Information is power; use it responsiblyJun 23, 2016 1:00 am - Following the terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport in March, news organizations, including the Daily Herald, faced an achingly familiar quandary. What pictures shou...
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Slusher: The role of eloquence in nudging the worldJun 16, 2016 1:00 am - One gropes, one claws, one prays for eloquence. For some of us, words are all we know, our only tool for taking the measure of an often beautiful, often miserable world....
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Slusher: Candy, meat and the art of making newsMay 26, 2016 1:00 am - There is making the news and then there is making the news. The two aren't always the same. Lake County Board Chairman Aaron Lawlor made news last week when he withdrew ...
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Slusher: Awards or no awards, our goal is making life a little betterMay 12, 2016 1:00 am - Today, some random thoughts journalistic: • The Daily Herald works hard to help better the suburbs and the communities we serve. Projects big and small with that purpose...