Articles filed under Commentary
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Fractured GOP still in need of a planAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - Republicans are buzzing about a new Gallup poll showing public approval of President Obama’s handling of the economy has fallen to 35 percent, while disapproval has rise...
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A timely perspective on what happens in schoolsAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - It’s hard to believe that whole weeks have passed since we’ve written or said anything about teacher pensions, even as the state’s debt to them accumulates at that now-m...
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Coalition of NRA, ACLU assures more deathsAug 21, 2013 5:00 am - Question: What do the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union have in common? Answer: The determination to stop New York Mayor Michael Bloomber...
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Move forward on malaria vaccineAug 21, 2013 5:00 am - When approached with the concept for producing the PfSPZ malaria vaccine, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, thought i...
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Oakton Community College Presents Update of Film, "An Inconvenient Truth"Aug 20, 2013 11:00 pm - Faculty members from Oakton Community College, in coordination with Organizing for Action and The Climate Reality Project, will present a commentary titled, “An Inconven...
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Just clowning around?Aug 20, 2013 5:00 am - Children, children. Here we are in the midst of a bloody clash in Egypt, more than 100,000 slaughtered in Syria, another looming debt crisis at home, and we’re consumed ...
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Naperville’s duck tickets and other shameless newsAug 18, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shameless...
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A fair assessment of politics for 2014Aug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Illinois State Fair in Springfield is a grand event for a state whose population is tilting quickly northeast to metropolitan Chicagoland. Its main draw is agricultu...
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Rhetoric vs. reality for RepublicansAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - So what’s it going to be for GOP hotheads in Congress this fall? A soul-satisfying episode of adolescent nihilism culminating in a government shutdown and yet another de...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...