Articles filed under Commentary
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Real questions we need answered at debatesFeb 26, 2020 12:00 am - First, a confession: I really like presidential debates. Why, you ask? Because these debates give us voters the chance to watch and evaluate the candidates while they st...
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Stop, question, frisk and the safety of minority communitiesFeb 26, 2020 12:00 am - Before former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw his hat into the 2020 presidential race, he defended the New York Police Department's use of "stop, question an...
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Baseball's failure to exact a price for cheating could destroy the game - and damage all professional sportsFeb 25, 2020 12:00 am - Nothing creates a moral hazard more than exposing corruption and yet failing to punish those responsible. That's what happened in the aftermath of the financial crisis o...
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Sanders' economic plan looks like a duck, despite how some quackFeb 25, 2020 12:00 am - As Sen. Bernie Sanders looks more and more like the one who may win the Democratic presidential nomination, some tell us that he isn't the radical leftist others make hi...
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5G and innovation in the Windy CityFeb 24, 2020 12:00 am - 5G is the fifth generation of wireless communication technology and it's starting to come online in places like Chicago. 5G will connect the way Americans think, live an...
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Politicians 1, taxpayers 0 in Avon TownshipFeb 24, 2020 12:00 am - It felt like a scene right out of the Chicago Democrat Machine at Tuesday night's Avon Township Board meeting. The meeting was called by the trustees to discuss the poss...
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Blagojevich is hardly the right spokesman for criminal justice reformFeb 23, 2020 12:00 am - Rod Blagojevich is back in Illinois and we are all poorer for it. President Donald Trump, who campaigned before crowds chanting "drain the swamp," sprung one of Illinois...
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A history belle's pick of presidentsFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - So, here we are on Presidents Day in Washington, the city hushed on the holiday. Picture me on the porch looking over my personal A-list. George Washington receives vis...
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Shaving to the boneFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - In World War I, when the combatants hunkered down fearfully in miles of opposing trenches, everything took on the name of the trench. There was trench foot, a disease, a...
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Sanders' economic plan looks like a duck, despite how some quackFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - As Sen. Bernie Sanders looks more and more like the one who may win the Democratic presidential nomination, some tell us that he isn't the radical leftist others make hi...