Articles filed under Commentary
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Guest View: Suburban Republicans push Rauner to compromiseNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - For most of his first year, Gov. Bruce Rauner has held sway over the Republican caucuses, ironically, doing a pretty good impersonation of House Speaker Mike Madigan. He...
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Kathleen Parker: Trump's meltown in IowaNov 18, 2015 4:00 am - You can't drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth than of the operating room. There's something vaguely b...
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Byron York: The Jeb Bush victory scenarioNov 17, 2015 4:15 am - The conventional wisdom that Jeb Bush is dead has become so unanimous it's only natural to suspect it's wrong. Yes, the polls are atrocious. Bush, now seeking traction w...
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Davis: Pot jokes lead to a serious topicNov 16, 2015 12:00 pm - We editor types, many of us more or less children of the '60s, had a pretty good time cracking wise about the startup of medical marijuana in Illinois and the suburbs. N...
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Improving access no longer enough for community collegesNov 16, 2015 12:00 am - The original promise of community colleges was to provide access to higher education for all students. Today, access is not enough. We can no longer operate with the o...
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State's needed tax increase held up by politicsNov 13, 2015 12:00 am - How can it ever be the wrong time to do the right thing? I ask because the state's current budget stalemate essentially begs the question. See, both the Democrats, who ...
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Slusher: For Gliniewicz or any story, details can take timeNov 12, 2015 12:00 am - If you're trying to assess news stories involving, say, Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, Patrick Kane or Robert Breuder - or, for that matter, the political candidacies of Ben...
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Trouble for Europe simmers again in the BalkansNov 12, 2015 12:00 am - There are many Bosnians still alive today who remember all too well the horrific four years of war in the 1990s. It was then that the Serbs, with Mongol precision, picke...
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A Vietnam-era veteran's reflection: Honor all who servedNov 11, 2015 12:00 am - I would be proud to call myself a "Vietnam veteran," but I believe this distinction belongs only to those who served "in-country" during that period of war. I regret I d...
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The Republican reality show rat raceNov 10, 2015 4:42 am - The current Republican presidential race is less a political contest than a reality TV series: A stage-managed melodrama with a cast of characters selected to titillate ...