Articles filed under Opinion
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Illinois patients need prescription drug reliefApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - Patient health care – particularly for those who can least afford it – faces an uncertain future. Debates over how to provide care to our most vulnerable communities at a...
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Test the young driversApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - Bottom line: For every 1,000 drivers over age 75, fewer than 25 are involved in crashes each year while adults 20-24 have three times that many. So, if your interest is p...
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Be proud that state protects consumersApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - The state of Illinois stands as a protector of individual freedom and rights, a place where somebody injured on the job or by a defective consumer product may go to court...
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Remember Highland Park and fight for changeApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - 1,024 days. That is how long it took for closure and justice. 1,024 days ago, my family and I were a part of the Highland Park mass shooting. A mass shooter was in the bu...
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Not just feel-good issueApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - The theory behind mascot and school team name changes was/is to show proper treatment of so-called disadvantaged groups. Many names were downright offensive, while others...
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Congress must interveneApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - Donald Trump is in direct violation of a SCOTUS ruling. He has “disappeared” a legal resident, without due process, without evidence, beyond contact, legal representatio...
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Protect public lands for public useApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - The push to sell off America’s public lands is accelerating. Top officials—including the secretaries of the Treasury and Interior—want to “monetize” our shared lands by s...
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Why do taxpayers help private schoolsApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - I live in the real world and have to ask why are the US taxpayers sending billions of dollars in grants to private and Ivy League schools. Harvard has a $50 billion endow...
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Services being discarded so billionaires winApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - Recent polling shows Trump supporters are happy with the actions of his administration so far. He’s delivered plenty of Fox News videos of immigrants being denied due pr...
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No simple solutions to complex problemsApr 28, 2025 4:00 am - Michael Barone’s column on April 24 about the decline of unions, while correctly citing decline, I believe, had a tone that was dismissive and misleading. Barone chooses ...