Articles filed under Commentary
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Guest View: Flooding will get worse but fed help may be on the wayOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - The devastation of Hurricane Ida, along with numerous flooding and severe weather events across Illinois this year, come as a painful reminder that communities must be p...
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Stadelman: Our communities need a healthy pressOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Democracy dies in darkness. Those words underscore the masthead of The Washington Post every day. Sadly, the light journalism brings to many communities in Illinois and ...
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Barone: The troubling legacy of de Blasio's destructionOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - By Michael Barone As his two terms as New York's mayor approach their end, and long after his presidential campaign ended with a whimper, Bill de Blasio has chimed in wi...
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Pulling back the curtain: We've started an Objectivity CouncilOct 18, 2021 1:00 am - How do we define objectivity? We journalists have liked to say, if thinking only quickly about it, that we're objective. And we certainly have been told that we should b...
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Political fights may derail help for disabledOct 17, 2021 1:00 am - The federal debate in Washington now is again dominated by political rancor and gamesmanship. But underneath the sound bites that grab headlines, Congress is poised to m...
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Progressiveness is fine, but let's not ignore a little decencyOct 17, 2021 1:00 am - Not everything means what it seems to mean. In the post-industrial New England town where I live, the library is a big granite structure built to impress in the 19th cen...
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Biden needs to keep away skunks and mobsOct 15, 2021 1:00 am - The Biden presidency hangs not upon the House, but two Democratic senators, skunks at the political garden party. As skies darken, the Jan. 6 Capitol mob comes closer. T...
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Biden's epic fail at unityOct 15, 2021 1:00 am - As a candidate, now-President Joe Biden said that if elected, he would bring the country together, heal partisan divisions and get things done. How's that working out? S...
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Slusher: Our struggle to get Facebook to fix loss of commentingOct 14, 2021 1:00 am - One of the advantages of the digital age for newspapers is that we now are more capable than ever of engaging directly with readers and letting readers engage with each ...
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'We are battling with one another ... 'Oct 14, 2021 1:00 am - "We are battling with one another," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told a conference last week, "and not battling with the common ...