Articles filed under Opinion
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Damage controlApr 11, 2025 4:00 am - So what if Trump gets in a game of golf? Joe Biden was MIA most of his term. Donald Trump is a smart businessman. He runs the country like a business. The world is listen...
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We must send a positive message about AmericaApr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Is this the country you want to live in? One where the president goes to his golf course in a limo, unaware that four soldiers have lost their lives in Lithuania. Or in w...
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Ulterior motives?Apr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Were the Trump tariffs little more than a stock market manipulation? Declare tariffs, watch the market crash, buy in, pause tariffs, watch the market recover, sell off, i...
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Community effort aims to prepare our youngest for the futureApr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Amber Peters: A new program in Elgin brings organizations and families together to boost critical skills in kids under 5 across language, math and a physical abilities, using prompts and a texting platform.
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Daily Herald opinion: As Highland Park shooter faces sentencing, we should focus on the victims and heroes of July 4, 2022Apr 11, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: “The Pitt” reminds us that trauma from shootings extends beyond victims. As sentencing nears, focus should be on Highland Park survivors and heroes.
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Today’s editorial cartoonApr 10, 2025 6:15 pm -
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South Korea provides lesson in successful democracyApr 10, 2025 3:17 pm - The troubled tenure of South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol formally came to an end on April 4. The nation’s Constitutional Court officially ruled that he had exceeded h...
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Employee ownership made my retirement possible; let’s make every worker an ownerApr 10, 2025 2:47 pm - Most Americans have little to nothing saved for retirement, and retiring early, like Steven Schmidt did, is out of the question. Schmidt credits his good fortune to the employee stock ownership plan at the company where he worked for 41 years.
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Referendum wake-up callApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - The third attempt to pass a referendum in school District 23 to satisfy a state mandate for full-day kindergarten for the 2027-28 school year has failed again. The taxpay...
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We are under threat as a nation dividedApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.” A. Lincoln Racial unrest and political polar...