Articles filed under Opinion
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Congress should extend ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits and open the governmentOct 11, 2025 1:00 pm - Small businesses want to provide health benefits to their employees because it promotes a healthy and productive workforce and allows them to compete for talent with larger enterprises.
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Today’s editorial cartoonOct 10, 2025 4:00 am -
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True fairness in electionsOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Keith Raffel’s column on Sunday espouses an idea brought up every election cycle, that all electoral votes be ascribed to the national winner of the popular vote instead ...
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Let’s negotiateOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Many Americans don’t want immigrants here illegally to get free health care of any kind. Well, we have a government that can negotiate with other governments. Can’t the g...
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Paying 'victims' to sueOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: There is a special place in hell for phony victims who take money from settlements meant for the legitimate victims of sexual abuse. Ahead of them, however, come the lawyers who make such scams work and pocket as much as half the settlements themselves.
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Daily Herald opinion: Not dead after all: Happy to see new burst of energy for Chicago-to-Rockford rail lineOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: This week, a proposed Chicago-to-Rockford rail project simultaneously took a step forward and one back, but we’re pleased to see that it hasn’t been dead after all, just delayed.
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Shutdown demand won’t lower health care costs; here’s what willOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Are Democrats sabotaging efforts to reduce health care costs by insisting on extending the COVID-era Obamacare subsidies? Critics argue the $410 billion move is a massive giveaway to insurance companies that won't address skyrocketing medical costs.
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The ‘Catch 22’ of unions and costsOct 10, 2025 4:00 am - I was kind of shocked by Frank Manzo's column on Illinois workers rights in the Daily Herald of Oct. 5. Mr. Manzo seems to promote Illinois workers’ rights and unionizati...
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Today’s editorial cartoonOct 09, 2025 3:58 pm -
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Must forum be silenced?Oct 09, 2025 11:34 am - Since the online forum of the Daily Herald was suddenly stopped, I recall when engaged with someone whose opinion differed greatly from mine, that I would respond by sayi...