Jim Slusher
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Covering championship euphoria to the utmostOct 15, 2015 1:00 am - Go, gulp, Cubs! Heh. Heh. That's not easy for me, as a White Sox fan, to say. I still consider one of my chief failings as a parent to be that I raised three Cubs fans. ...
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Slusher: Costs of the Fox Lake probe and government's balance sheetOct 08, 2015 1:00 am - Two very different stories this week have me thinking about the cost of government and what people should know about it. The most prominent is Wednesday's story detailin...
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Slusher: Costs of the Fox Lake probe and government's balance sheetOct 07, 2015 11:00 pm - Two very different stories this week have me thinking about the cost of government and what people should know about it. The most prominent is Wednesday's story detailin...
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Slusher: People will talk, but be careful about judgmentsSep 24, 2015 1:00 am - It is ridiculous for a newspaper ever to tell the public not to have an interest in a topic or not to speculate about whether officials are doing their jobs right. Our ...
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Slusher: Information vacuum is sometimes unavoidable, always uncomfortableSep 10, 2015 1:00 am - And now we wait. Like wheels within wheels, there is a rhythm to the news cycle, and it is not always comforting. In regard to the killing of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewi...
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Slusher: Remember reliability, not just immediacy of breaking newsSep 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Covering breaking news on the so-called 24-hour news cycle has always been fraught with certain perils. It was challenge enough before the turn of the century, when in m...
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Slusher: Our goal: Not 'liberal,' not 'conservative' -- just stimulatingAug 20, 2015 1:00 am - The call I took this morning from a reader unhappy with one of our editorial cartoons could almost serve as a punctuation mark on the theme for today's column. The reade...
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Slusher: The Emanuel Nine and the shortening of small fantasiesJul 16, 2015 1:00 am - We use the name of a man who killed nine people in a church once because we have to. He is a person and has a face and its image is spread across the vast realm of the I...
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Slusher: Versatility a byword for journalistsJul 09, 2015 1:00 am - Some thoughts on recognition and multi-tasking in the news arena: A month ago, I wrote about the fundamental challenges news photographers face trying to capture meanin...
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Slusher: New column will provide insight through direct accessJun 17, 2015 11:00 pm - A newspaper has many distinguishing qualities and components, but one of the most important things it possesses is access. By virtue of the fact that we speak to tens of...