Articles filed under Commentary
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Should Chicago Symphony play in a preserve?Feb 09, 2014 4:00 am - Imagine the prospect of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra coming to DuPage County. On its face, who could argue with the idea? Think of the vaunted CSO playing beautiful mu...
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Benefits of girls athletics far reachingFeb 07, 2014 4:00 am - There she was, standing on the first-place podium in the All-Around category for her age level at the Bravo Gymnastics meet. Her face beaming with pride, my eyes brimmin...
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Big Brother is not retreating to 18th centuryFeb 06, 2014 4:00 am - Let’s cut to the chase: If Big Brother wants you, he’s got you, telephone metadata notwithstanding. This disconcerting fact of modern life has been true more or less sin...
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Information can do only so much; what counts is how we use itFeb 06, 2014 4:00 am - Random thoughts journalistic: Ÿ We editorialized on this topic Wednesday and it's been a prominent cause for the Daily Herald at least since our first “Hidden Scourge” s...
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Isolationism’s high priceFeb 05, 2014 4:00 am - This being the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, I have plunged into several books on the subject, most of them relating to what started it, and I have c...
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A mood swing on immigrationFeb 05, 2014 4:00 am - The Republican Party faces an existential question: Can it make the transition to a more welcoming position on immigration without tearing itself apart or further aliena...
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Why educate international students and have them leave?Feb 04, 2014 4:00 am - Rick Snyder knows how the economy works. He was a top executive for the computer maker Gateway before heading a venture capital firm that invested in startup companies. ...
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Hard knocks of pro footballFeb 04, 2014 4:00 am - President Obama’s imaginary son is back in town and this time he can’t play football. Dad says so. And Mom probably would, too. On this point, we three could smoke a p...
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Now online: Bare knuckles political brawl!Feb 02, 2014 4:00 am - Keith Matune came out swinging. “How many times do you need to vote with Mike Madigan to be a Chicago Democrat?” he said, ticking off several alleged instances: the pens...
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Obama’s thin agendaFeb 02, 2014 4:00 am - Crafting a State of the Union address often raises an internal debate at the White House: When should a president dispute a negative judgment by the public and when shou...