Articles filed under Opinion
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Disrupters at pool should have been arrestedJul 18, 2025 9:59 am - Your July 16 editorial about the incident at Sunset Pool in Glen Ellyn is all wrong. They were not unsupervised teens creating a disturbance. They were inner city hoodlum...
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Depravity Denial: On sexual violence, progressives make an Israel exceptionJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: If the mass slaughter of Israelis dancing or in their beds wasn't enough to penetrate the moral conscience of self-identifying progressives, and it wasn't, the earnestly credulous among us might have imagined that the barbaric sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli females might have moved those who claimed, you know, to support women. But no.
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Message, not money, is Democrats’ problemJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Protecting Medicaid: A lifeline for many IllinoisansJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Anna Moeller: President Trump's budget bill will severely cut Medicaid, risking coverage for 330,000 state residents and closure of rural hospitals.
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Daily Herald opinion: Respect over rivalry: In naming former opponent to commission, new mayor puts priority on ‘what counts’Jul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: Mundelein Mayor Robin Meier’s recent appointment of past opponent Tim Wilson to the village’s planning and zoning commission sends a strong message and sets the right tone for her first term.
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Today’s editorial cartoonJul 18, 2025 4:00 am -
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Looking sensibly at the State Department cutsJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: According to State Department documents, the total number of department employees has grown significantly over the years. After the addition of 22,874 employees, can a cut of 1,350 be “devastating"?
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A lesson on what journalism really does in a democracyJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: If you think that the lesson of Sage Gilliland’s exposé at Prospect High School is that good journalism helps bend that famous “arc of the moral universe” toward justice, I have something a little different to suggest.
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Hostile, ineffective letterJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - I was appalled to see the Herald publish Bob Janz’s letter in today’s paper. Why give a platform to something so riddled with misinformation, exaggeration, and outright h...