Articles filed under Commentary
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How your boss will save your lifeJan 14, 2022 12:00 am - I've been through this before. Here's how it's gonna go. When I first started working in newsrooms 40 years ago, not only could you smoke, you could put 'em out on the f...
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Bruce and Barack: Cool dudes on the state of the nationJan 13, 2022 12:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm Who would you rather hang with, Bruce Springsteen or Barack Obama? Luckily, you don't have to choose, because Bruce and Barack have a bestselling book, ...
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A resolution for the Biden administrationJan 13, 2022 12:00 am - The new year often feels like an opportunity to correct past mistakes - for example, improving one's diet or quitting smoking. This explains why 25% of Americans, and 40...
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The next year of COVID-19Jan 12, 2022 12:00 am - The year began with such great optimism when it came to COVID-19. Science had produced a miracle or, rather, multiple miracles named Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson & Joh...
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Workin' for a livin'Jan 11, 2022 12:00 am - After doing an hourlong local news podcast, which is not as much fun as you'd think, I got off what I laughingly call "work" and headed to a local liquor store. It was p...
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The John Lindsay DemocratsJan 11, 2022 12:00 am - One way to anticipate what may be ahead in politics is to gauge the balance of power in the nation's two political parties. The Republican Party has always been centered...
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One year laterJan 09, 2022 12:00 am - Banned from social media, impeached for a second time, former President Donald Trump might have disappeared in the sunset. And there are days when it almost seems as if ...
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How other nations see Americans affects our interestsJan 07, 2022 12:00 am - In 1959, the officials of the National Security Council met to discuss Cyprus. The small Mediterranean island nation was about to become independent from Great Britain, ...
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Chicago teachers create an opening for vouchersJan 07, 2022 12:00 am - Tuesday, 73% of Chicago teachers voted to compel their school district to ditch classroom instruction in favor of remote learning because of COVID-19. So, it's official:...
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Searching for truth in the vocabulary of democracyJan 06, 2022 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher Long before lyricist Don Raye put words to the music of Al Jacobs in 1940 to create the anthem "This Is My Country," we already were arguing over what Ame...