Articles filed under Commentary
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Syndicated columnist Marc Dion: The junkie's and the driver's lament: You gotta have somethin'Mar 15, 2022 1:00 am - Where I live, it's impossible to get heroin that isn't laced with fentanyl. In fact, most of what is sold as heroin is fentanyl. If you use it as directed, fentanyl kill...
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Syndicated columnist Debra Saunders: The People's House - without the peopleMar 15, 2022 1:00 am - It's been close to two years since Congress closed its doors to the public to slow the spread of COVID-19. While states and local governments are discarding their COVID-...
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Guest opinion: Afghan scholars in U.S. face an uncertain futureMar 14, 2022 1:00 am - There is a conversation going on. It involves scores of young scholars across the length and breadth of America, ensconced in universities where they pursue graduate stu...
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Ukraine shows we live in a nationalist worldMar 13, 2022 1:00 am - It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That's one of the lessons people are learning from the surprise early results of the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is certa...
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Breonna Taylor two years later: reform should not happen one death at a timeMar 13, 2022 1:00 am - On March 3, a jury found former Louisville Metro Police Department officer Brett Hankison not guilty of wanton endangerment. Breonna Taylor was not the victim in this tr...
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Guest opinion: Communities need state funding restored to protect property taxesMar 11, 2022 12:00 am - As the elected village presidents of Hanover Park and Hoffman Estates, it is our pleasure to write this essay on behalf of our residents concerning the restoration of th...
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Will more defense spending translate to better security?Mar 11, 2022 12:00 am - The brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia has renewed conservatives' calls for large increases of our defense budget. The extra money, we are told, would fund more weapon...
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The 'three-dimensional chess" match that defines our new world orderMar 10, 2022 12:00 am - A lot of people lately have been throwing around a quote by Lenin, who said that sometimes "decades go by and nothing happens and then weeks go by and decades happen." S...
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Even history's 'first draft' needs to include contextMar 10, 2022 12:00 am - When people refer to newspapers as, in the words of a famous phrase, "the first draft of history," they probably are thinking most about the history part. They should no...
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Ending state's nuclear power moratorium can speed transition to clean energyMar 09, 2022 12:00 am - Last September, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a massive climate and energy plan into law. It couldn't have been more dramatic: two nuclear plants were only hours away from p...