Articles filed under Commentary
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Daily Miracle: Outlet malls and aging theatersMar 09, 2014 5:00 am - The Page 1 centerpiece. It's not viewed by everyone as the biggest, most important story of the day (the “skyline” across the top of paper sometimes takes that honor), b...
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Still time for courage, specifics in governor's raceMar 06, 2014 10:00 pm - There are no profiles in courage in the Illinois governor race. I'm not surprised and I probably should know better than to be disappointed, but I am. The level of disco...
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Once upon a moonbeamMar 06, 2014 4:01 am - In matters cultural, California has always been America's petri dish. Whatever happened in California usually infiltrated the rest of the country. Today there is reason...
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Stories highlight more than a single agency's needMar 06, 2014 12:00 am - Few things are more gratifying to us than a lead like this one that appeared in our Wednesday editions: “After an outpouring of community support, the (Deicke home for a...
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Losing his head in CrimeaMar 05, 2014 4:01 am - Vladimir Nabokov considered Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog" one of the best short stories ever written. For what it's worth, I agree. The plot is a simple one. A...
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The Tea Party hangoverMar 05, 2014 4:01 am - The evidence accumulates that the Republican Party is sobering up - cotton-mouthed and slightly disoriented - from its recent ideological bender. The tone of some rheto...
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Mexicans' skepticism fuels legend of El ChapoMar 04, 2014 4:01 am - U.S. officials want to extradite the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was captured last month by Mexican marines and U.S. Drug Enforcement Admi...
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Defeating Dems, not the ACA, is the point of misleading adsMar 02, 2014 4:01 am - Politically speaking, here's the thing about those melodramatic TV ads attacking the Affordable Care Act: In terms of actual policy, they're as futile as the 40-odd vote...
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Obama's best hope for changeMar 01, 2014 4:01 am - President Obama's new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color - "My Brother's Keeper" - is cause for cheer. It isn't that we haven't known for some time that m...
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The return of the unseenFeb 27, 2014 4:01 am - Each of the GPS satellites that allow me to navigate to a new restaurant carries an atomic clock that needs to be accurate in order to triangulate the speed and position...