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No news is bad news in the briefing room
Apr 7, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Debra J. Saunders: The Washington Post and The New York Times aren't sending reporters to the Trump White House for daily briefings. -
Clamor over tests can override real issues in avoiding COVID-19Apr 7, 2020 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Arvind K. Goyal: Instead of fretting about paucity of available testing kits or test sites, let us listen to what our president, the governor and the public health agencies are articulating every day.
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Need for safety from virus is changing how photographers work
Apr 6, 2020 9:19 PM - Director of Visual Journalism Jeff Knox: Our photojournalists are following the best practices for keeping the people we are photographing safe and ourselves safe, too. -
Shutdowns spur innovations in sports, entertainment, music coverage
Apr 6, 2020 8:35 AM - With virtually all sports, entertainment and music events shut down by the pandemic, Daily Herald editors shifted focus to keep readers in touch with the leisure activities they love. Here's how. -
Career built on love of suburbs, newspapers
Apr 6, 2020 8:31 AM - Beyond the Byline: Growing up in Bolingbrook in the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Sanchez enjoyed everything the suburbs had to offer. -
COVID-19 is forcing us to rethink our values
Apr 5, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Armstrong Williams: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The immortal words of Charles Dickens have never rung truer than now, during the age of COVID-19 and the global pandemic. -
Americans rally to their presidents in times of crisis
Apr 5, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Mark Shields: Democrats are beside themselves; after President Donald Trump's consistently inconsistent and uneven public pronouncements on the seriousness of the coronavirus, moving in one 24-hour period from "something we have tremendous control over" to our "toughest enemy: the invisible enemy" and limiting all crowds to fewer than 10, his poll numbers have gone up. -
Oh, for arms that are six feet long
Apr 3, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Connie Schultz: Earlier this week, our daughter Cait texted a photo capturing a moment of her juggling her job and her two young children at home. At first, I noticed only Cait's hand on the laptop, but as I studied it, I saw the reason for snapping the picture.
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Our workplace is lonelier, but goal of valuable news is even stronger
Apr 2, 2020 10:22 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: In May 2019, I wrote the following as the Daily Herald prepared to move from our offices just east of the intersection of Algonquin and Arlington Heights roads in Arlington Heights to our new offices just west of the intersection of Algonquin and Arlington Heights roads:
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In fighting pandemic, pure individualism is a handicap
Apr 2, 2020 10:15 AM - Guest columnist Patrick Dickson: There comes every few years a phrase that perfectly captures a cultural moment. The one I have seen recently, and really has struck a chord, is "pathological individualism."
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