Articles filed under Commentary
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The search for leadershipDec 08, 2021 12:00 am - Americans over 65 and those with underlying risk factors are not supposed to travel. Luckily, I have no plans to travel this week. Because I traveled last week. Who knew...
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A boost for an old ladyDec 07, 2021 12:00 am - By Marc Munro Dion I went to get my COVID-19 booster the day before Thanksgiving. I had an appointment at a chain drugstore in a strip mall located in the dope-shooting...
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To build a brighter future, we must make public transit greener, more accessibleDec 07, 2021 12:00 am - In July, we hosted a town hall meeting in Hanover Park to ask residents how public transportation could be improved in the Northwest suburbs. The message from attendees ...
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Dec 06, 2021 12:00 am - Connecting to readers, and helping readers to connect to each other, through social media has become an integral part of the Daily Herald's mission as a community newspa...
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Family, and country, dividedDec 05, 2021 12:00 am - My brother is older than me and when I was in high school, he worked second shift. I'd stay up waiting for him to get home and we'd work on jigsaw puzzles on the floor o...
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Thinking through the trade-offs of federally mandated paid leaveDec 05, 2021 12:00 am - The nonsensical coverage of the debate over paid leave continues. Apparently, opposing a federal paid-leave program is the equivalent of being anti-family or pro-sufferi...
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Crime reform is here. Do you feel safer?Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, California is about to have a bumper crop of right-wingers as the social compact is crumbling in the Golden State and beyo...
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The Biden-Buttigieg pitch: It's all free!Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond what is needed to ru...
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Fund local journalism to help communitiesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A portion of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) was included in the recent Build Back Better bill that was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The L...
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Transition: From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IIDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - In the last 40 years, I have counseled, represented, supported and cried with thousands of women, many of them students in those criminal law classes, many of them telli...