Articles filed under Opinion
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'Sausage making' stories can have a higher purposeMar 03, 2010 10:00 pm - When it comes to government reporting, the Daily Herald is very selective about approaching "process" stories. Our goal on a particular issue is to make sure you know wh...
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Politics blocking progress in IllinoisMar 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Will the 2010 Illinois primary ever end? Both political parties seem trapped by the Groundhog Day results and Bill Murray is nowhere to be seen. Republicans: The State S...
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Companies falter when profits top principlesMar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - When Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, an attitude was exposed that Rep. Dennis Kucinich co...
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Yet another step to card-swipe dependencyMar 01, 2010 10:00 pm - At the intersection of the nanny state and the welfare state is a bill in the California Legislature that would make it easier for food stamp recipients to buy fruits an...
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Americans can speak for themselvesMar 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Have you voted on any of the Democratic health care reform plans? Me neither. No such vote was ever taken. But with coordination that the Rockettes would envy, Republica...
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Toyota and the price of modernityFeb 28, 2010 10:00 pm - Amazingly, the congressional hearings on Toyota were relatively civilized. This was remarkable given the drama of some of the testimony, such as that from a tearful Rhon...
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When character flaws become disordersFeb 27, 2010 10:00 pm - Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tende...
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Great Lakes deserve this kind of great effortFeb 27, 2010 10:00 pm - If you want to be a stickler for journalistic ethics, I shouldn't even be writing about the Great Lakes, because I have a bias - especially when it comes to Lake Michiga...
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Keep locks open; find other ways to stop carpFeb 25, 2010 10:00 pm - When an issue becomes emotionally and politically charged, shortsighted actions are trumpeted as actual solutions. That's what is taking place in the fight to prevent As...
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Do you believe Tiger gave a sincere apology?Feb 23, 2010 10:00 pm - "I'm sorry for the things I've done. I know that I'm the foolish one. Now that I see who's to blame. I'm so ashamed, I'm sorry." (The Platters, 1957) If Tiger Woods conf...