Articles filed under Opinion
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Hillary Clinton and dynastiesNov 12, 2014 4:01 am - Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony. She is the presumptive presidential nominee, the likely one, the inevitable one, the one and...
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Citizens United resonates in midtermsNov 12, 2014 4:01 am - Look at it this way: At least the 2014 midterm elections are over. Maybe the most clueless pronouncement ever made by a U.S. Supreme Court justice was Anthony Kennedy's ...
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Obama's 'gifts' to the nationNov 11, 2014 4:01 am - Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as party leader, Democrats are takin...
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GOP at crossroads with HispanicsNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - Republicans are enjoying a well-deserved victory lap. But, when it comes to the touchy subjects of Hispanic outreach and immigration reform, they still seem a tad confus...
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What's an old-timer? and other burning questionsNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - When I started writing this column 15 or so years ago, it was on all things Naperville, ran only in our Naperville edition. And as a longtime Napervillean (lived there 1...
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Some thoughts on governingNov 09, 2014 4:01 am - I have been working in or around government for more than 50 years, and if you asked me to boil down what I've learned to one sentence, it is this: Governing is much har...
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Save lives, boost economy by protecting drug researchNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - University of Illinois researchers have developed a revolutionary new technology that delivers scorpion and bee venom directly to cancer cells, killing them without harm...
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The courage of Brittany MaynardNov 06, 2014 4:01 am - The death of death is fast approaching - fast being a matter of decades or maybe more, but sooner or later science will kill the Grim Reaper and future generations will ...
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Viewing political corruption more broadlyOct 26, 2014 5:01 am - Earlier this year, veteran political writer Thomas Edsall reported an eyebrow-raising fact about Americans' views toward government. Polling by Gallup, he noted, found t...
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Why don't heroes ever claim their well-deserved title?Oct 26, 2014 5:01 am - Sunday Soapbox. Musings of your neighborhood editor. Heroic: As is almost always the case, people who do heroic things don't call themselves "heroes." "Just doing m...