Articles filed under Opinion
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Will single-payer health care champions ever offer something credible?Jun 10, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Single-payer health care has been the progressive left's signature domestic demand for four decades. What it has never generated once is a workable legislative proposal.
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How Race, Politics and Sports IntersectJun 10, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: I hope highly recruited Black athletes prayerfully consider all their options, and I also hope my students have a better understanding of how race, politics and sports intersect.
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Counting votes in CaliforniaJun 09, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of the elections in California.
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Daily Herald opinion: The data center pause: It has its detractors, but Pritzker’s action does emphasize a problem’s urgencyJun 09, 2026 4:00 am - Daily Herald Opinion: Whatever the governor’s political motive, the announcement of a pause on incentives for data center projects nonetheless emphasizes an urgent problem in need of legislative solutions.
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Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?Jun 09, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Last Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections.
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Health care ‘reform’ misses the problemJun 09, 2026 4:00 am - Gov. Pritzker should veto HB2371 and HB4327 and instead pursue reforms that ensure transparency is meaningful protected Illinois families from unnecessary health care cos...
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Fans and Bears profitsJun 09, 2026 4:00 am - When all is said and done, you can't blame Bears management for being shrewd, if manipulative, businesspeople. But you can point fingers at them for taking advantage of a...
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Today’s editorial cartoonJun 09, 2026 4:00 am -
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Study construction delayJun 07, 2026 4:00 am - It took eight months to build the Alaska Highway. We are going onto two-plus years rebuilding a 1.5-mile stretch of Arlington Heights Road from Checker Road to Route 83 i...
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Dismantling ocean system another step backward for U.S.Jun 07, 2026 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: In recent days, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million decade-old ocean observation system that monitors coastal environments and powerful currents that impact the global climate.