Articles filed under Commentary
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Conservative economics with a hip-hop twistJun 21, 2017 1:00 am - Greg Caskey is a 27-year-old Abington, Pennsylvania, native who is a social sciences teacher at Delaware Military Academy. The academy is a thriving charter high school ...
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Retirement enhancements don't put students firstJun 21, 2017 1:00 am - In the May 30 edition of the Daily Herald, there is an article titled "Schools chiefs to urge state lawmakers Wednesday to end budget impasse." The article highlights a ...
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Wrong news prioritiesJun 21, 2017 1:00 am - I'm looking at the June 15 paper and on the front page is an article about a gunman. It continues on Page 5, half of the page. Why would you tell the life story of this...
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Twin personalities and policies clash in CubaJun 21, 2017 1:00 am - Once upon a time, there were two fiercely ambitious brothers in Cuba - but the two men were very, very different. Fidel, the older of the two, who would become world-fam...
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Deniers distort, misstate statistics on climateJun 21, 2017 1:00 am - I'm sure that the June 15 letter "Climate change is a scam" is sincere, but the author has been misled by deniers. First, the 2009 East Anglia "scandal": A small number...
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Conservative or liberal, we have to be willing to listenJun 20, 2017 1:00 am - Wednesday's shooting at a congressional baseball practice was a ghastly example of the political polarization that is ripping this country apart. Political scientists ha...
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Our new life in the dugoutJun 20, 2017 1:00 am - Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on "Do Not Disturb," except for family and close friends whose calls would always go through. ...
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New clean energy law gives Illinois a chance to show national leadershipJun 19, 2017 1:00 am - As the calendar has turned to June, and contentious debates over the state budget dominate the news out of Springfield, it is easy to overlook some exceptionally good ne...
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A scolding about patriotism prompts a practical solutionJun 17, 2017 2:00 pm - Ah, if only the world would work like this a little more often. Lauren Zannini says she was “heartbroken” when she walked around her Elgin neighborhood Memorial Day week...
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Leftward shift would be recipe for disasterJun 16, 2017 1:00 am - Bernie Sanders was speaking recently to a gathering of like-minded liberals in Chicago. "I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Tru...