Articles filed under Opinion
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Economic illiteracy's imminent dangerOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Stagnant wages are a key issue in the presidential election, and they should be. Lawmakers in both parties currently have a chance to go beyond campaign promises and sup...
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Don't do it, Paul RyanOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - The worst job in the world, it turns out, isn't the U.S. presidency but speaker of the House of Representatives. "It's where you go to die," as one veteran Hill watcher...
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The Kemp Way is still an optionOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Other than in its original application, most exercises in WWXD - "What would X do?" with X being, say, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr., or Churchill - are less than u...
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Put drug treatment into national conversationOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was President Clinton's crime adviser, he was so enthusiastic about Four-Star General/Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey's proposal to increase dr...
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Heroin, mental health: Stories that don't endOct 10, 2015 2:00 pm - "If our lives were a movie, if our lives were a book/It'd be longer than I could defend/'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop/But stories don't end." ...
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Parents as respectful witnesses as child's gender unfoldsOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - Eleven years ago, I moved back to my native town of Arlington Heights to raise my children and teach private music lessons. When my oldest child was two years old, she t...
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How far will Clinton fall before Democrats panic?Oct 08, 2015 1:00 am - In a recent Wall Street Journal poll, the number of Americans who say they have a very positive opinion of Hillary Clinton hit its lowest point in the years since she wa...
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Slusher: Costs of the Fox Lake probe and government's balance sheetOct 08, 2015 1:00 am - Two very different stories this week have me thinking about the cost of government and what people should know about it. The most prominent is Wednesday's story detailin...
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Slusher: Costs of the Fox Lake probe and government's balance sheetOct 07, 2015 11:00 pm - Two very different stories this week have me thinking about the cost of government and what people should know about it. The most prominent is Wednesday's story detailin...
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Religious holidays at school: The case for all or noneOct 07, 2015 1:00 am - With the school year under way, the community prepares for the eventful year ahead. Parents are encouraged to sync the school calendars onto their own electronic device...