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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Flashback 1998: Confronting the horror in this political jungle

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Bill Clinton, National Portrait Gallery       America has impeached four presidents and I've written about three of them while the p...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Daily Northwestern’s unfortunate apology

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     This was an unusual column. My first inclination, Wednesday morning, was to open up with both barrels on The Daily Northwester...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Flashback 1996: Gramm puts foot down right on son's career

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Jeff Gramm performs in South Korea.        A Chicago public high school asked me to speak at its career day next month. My initial incl...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

Veterans Day: Talking with one of Illinois’ 628,000 vets

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Robert Richmond      Robert Richmond was 17 when his grandmother took him to the Army recruiting station and signed the papers.      The...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Enigmatic beverage

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      Wednesday night I was meeting my buddy at the Super Burrito on Western Avenue to have dinner, catch up, then proceed together to an ...
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

The Saturday Snapshot: National Geographic

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     It's flattering, I suppose, that regular reader Tony Galati would suspect that perhaps I would know someone who has a need for 11 ...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

Hard choices for mayor over new police boss

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        Last April, when she still a candidate for mayor, I asked Lori Lightfoot why she would want to leave her cushy berth at a big l...
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