Articles filed under Opinion
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Illinois’ motor fuel tax is working as intended: Fixing roads and keeping up with costsMay 17, 2025 1:28 pm - Every July 1 since 2019, Illinois’ motor fuel tax ticks upward with the rate of inflation. And every year, the same talking heads emerge attacking it as some evidence of broken government.
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Daily Herald opinion: Trust and urgency: Bears’ latest shift shows team can have faith in suburbs' determination, preparationMay 17, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: At this stage of the maybe-on, maybe-off, maybe-on-again plans for a Bears stadium in Arlington Heights, it can still feel premature to put up a “Welcome Back!” sign at entrances to the village. But there is a certain tone of finality in the one-sentence statement issued by the franchise Friday.
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Seeking the positiveMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - In a recent Daily Herald, Marlene Aumuller writes to complain that anything positive about Donald Trump is relegated to a small paragraph, hidden in the back somewhere. M...
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The political message from Omaha should be obviousMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Froma Harrop: As Omaha trends Democratic, rural Nebraska sticks with Trump despite his policies threatening farms. But there’s a wake-up call here for Republicans that heartland dissatisfaction with Trump is growing.
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Today’s editorial cartoonMay 16, 2025 4:00 am -
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Reject zoning change for slaughterhouseMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - I eat meat. I know where meat comes from. Animals crammed together in pens. Processing meat for consumption is loud, dirty and hazardous. Disgusting. Slaughter creates to...
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The Donald Trump ‘Revenge Tour’ is underwayMay 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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Daily Herald opinion: ‘Plover fever’: Protecting shorebird pairs a worthy passionMay 15, 2025 3:30 pm - Daily Herald opinion: Plover fever strikes as fiercely protective endangered birds beat extinction and return to Illinois shores to nest thanks to devoted conservation teams.
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Keeping the degrees of separation close to the new popeMay 15, 2025 4:00 am - Some statisticians claim that each of us is no more than six degrees of separation from any other person on the planet. With that as a rough measure, Chicagoans were che...
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‘JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. Mark my words'May 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: Indiana Republican Senator Jim Banks predicts Vice President JD Vance will be the 2028 GOP presidential nominee and win the general election by diminishing China's influence, becoming a pro-worker party and replacing wokeism with patriotism.