Articles filed under Opinion
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3 big headwinds for Illinois businesses this summerAug 02, 2025 12:22 pm - Summer is a season of opportunity for Illinois businesses, but this year familiar challenges are reemerging that threaten to burden suburban businesses with higher costs and greater uncertainty.
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A betrayal of our kidsAug 01, 2025 11:02 am - Lee Zeldin and the EPA plan to rescind the 2009 declaration that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. This underpins the government’s legal aut...
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The true impact of ‘trickle-down’Aug 01, 2025 11:02 am - I never believed in trickle-down economics. Until now. Trickle-down economics insists that tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses eventually “trickle down” to those who ...
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Daily Herald opinion: A day to remember: 40 years ago, Arlington Park fire reduced track to ruins — before a remarkable rebirthAug 01, 2025 4:00 am - Anyone new to the area might have a hard time grasping what Arlington Park once meant to the Northwest suburbs. And surely, they could not imagine the impact the 1985 fir...
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Democratic anger vs. Trump accomplishmentAug 01, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: New poll shows voters have more confidence in Republicans than Democrats to handle key issues, despite disapproving of Trump's handling of economy, inflation, tariffs, and foreign policy.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner's death: A reminder to make the most of our livesAug 01, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: For my generation, the storylines revolving around Malcolm Jamal-Warner’s character Theo on the ‘Cosby Show’ were awe-inspiring because his character was upstanding and not stereotypical
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Today’s editorial cartoonAug 01, 2025 4:00 am -
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Things you can learn in newspaper stories about something elseJul 31, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: From time to time, I like to take off on a routine inspired by the late, great Chicago Sun-Times columnist Sydney J. Harris, who often found the most intriguing facts in unexpected places and compiled them into columns under the theme “things I learned while looking up something else.
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Columbia strikes deal with Trump. Will rest of higher education follow?Jul 31, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:
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Leaving my kids a livable worldJul 31, 2025 4:00 am - If I’m a conservative, no one believes I care about clean air and water for future generations. If I’m a progressive, no one thinks I can engage with this government and ...