Articles filed under Commentary
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Black Lives Matter co-founder cashes in on 'systemic racism'Apr 16, 2021 1:00 am - Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Blacks Lives Matter. About her background, she said in 2015: "The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological fr...
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'Climate zombies' want to infect your brain with misinformationApr 16, 2021 1:00 am - The zombies are back and they want your brain. No, we're not talking about Night of the Living Dead movie zombies, nor the '60s British rock band who recorded the hit so...
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Efforts aim to fight climate change while protecting small businessesApr 15, 2021 1:00 am - Climate change is real and it's happening now. Over the past year, raging wildfires, bitterly cold weather and extreme heat have left too many families across the countr...
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People who share suffering help us allApr 15, 2021 1:00 am - Sometimes, there is one especially important thing you must say to people who open up about tragedies that storm uninvited into their lives. Thank you. This is true enou...
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Biden's infrastructure plan is recovery America needsApr 14, 2021 1:00 am - President Biden's American Jobs Plan is something FDR could be proud of, the type of New Deal-era government program that got a post-Great Depression United States back ...
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Best response to an emergency: All togetherApr 14, 2021 1:00 am - We hear a lot about political polarization and the lack of bipartisanship these days. Bipartisanship can sound like a quaint idea from some simpler time before social me...
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Local signs we are living through the climate emergencyApr 12, 2021 1:00 am - Climate emergency. Why do so many of us turn away from these two simple words when, by acting together, we can greatly reduce the threat? Let's take a closer at what liv...
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Community colleges will be key to recovery from pandemicApr 11, 2021 1:00 am - April is Community College Month. As a proud Harper College alum, vice chair of the Harper College Board of Trustees and board member of the Association of Community Col...
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Fried eggs and beer and the long waitApr 11, 2021 1:00 am - I am part of a small chain of three men, all of us riding out the pandemic, none of us particularly young. One of us is fully retired from the food service industry. I a...
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Will Joe Biden's Jim Crow big lie boomerang?Apr 09, 2021 1:00 am - The big lie works - until it doesn't. The big lie in this case is Joe Biden's charge that the changes in Georgia election law passed by the majority-Republican legislatu...