Articles filed under Commentary
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Citizens must force redistricting reformApr 18, 2016 1:00 am - During our years of service in the Illinois House of Representatives, we worked together on many issues and projects to benefit our districts and our region and state, e...
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Do we really want to obey - or enforce - speed limits?Apr 17, 2016 7:00 am - Some pearls of wisdom from our letters to the editor column: Responding to Transportation Writer Marni Pyke's column about the perils of merging via "cattle chute" onto ...
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Let Trump play the victimApr 17, 2016 1:00 am - Welcome to Donald Trump's banana republic. "We're going to have protests, demonstrations," says Trump surrogate and confidante Roger Stone. "We will disclose the hotels ...
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Is GOP headed for its own Bush v. Gore?Apr 15, 2016 1:00 am - It's now likely Republicans are headed toward a contested convention in July. But they might be headed toward more than that - the party could be on its way to an intern...
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COD public records destruction and the public trustApr 15, 2016 1:00 am - One year ago, on April 13, 2015, U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon empaneled a grand jury and subpoenaed College of DuPage records relating to spending, personnel, reimbursem...
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Shoes start to fall in Panama Papers scandalApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - It's too wonderful. It's too delicious. It's too Graham Greene! It's Edward Snowden without Uncle Sam, it's the Pentagon Papers without a war in Asia, and it's every con...
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The questions I never askedApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - I am reading a book about death. It is Katie Roiphe's "The Violet Hour" and it is about how some people, all of them famous, faced death or thought about it. I turned to...
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Clinton can only be defeated at ballot box, not by bogus 'scandals'Apr 13, 2016 1:00 am - Fearless prediction: No legalistic deus ex machina will descend to save the nation from the dread specter of President Hillary Rodham Clinton. No cigar-smoking duck like...
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The GOP has two fevers that need to breakApr 13, 2016 1:00 am - By MICHAEL GERSON Some Trump-obsessed, hysterical nitwits have overstated the case that the Republican Party may be on the verge of self-annihilation. "If Trump were ...
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Collaboration a key in fight against substance abuseApr 12, 2016 1:00 am - As too many Illinois families have learned, addiction does not discriminate. Cheaper than cigarettes and more available than alcohol, heroin has become a plague on our c...