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Sunday, June 12, 2022

The race to lose to J.B. Pritzker

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         Look at a map.      Illinois is an oasis of blue state humanity in a desert of red state neo-fascism. Here, women's rights, im...
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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Wilmette Notes: Irish Eyes

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     As it happens, there are a few cans of Guinness in my refrigerator right now, leftovers from the Hanukkah party. Hopefully, by summer...
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Friday, June 10, 2022

Should we see their faces?

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     It was nearly 40 years ago, in the mid-1980s. A woman called me at the Daily Journal in Wheaton to say her kindergartener had been rape...
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Thursday, June 9, 2022

Flashback 2010: Hockey diehards can take cue from this opera buff

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Harry Caray's owner Grant DePorter, right, with hockey player Patrick Kane.      It's flattering to have your work remembered. Even ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Why restrict child porn but not guns?

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©Gabriele Galimberti from The Ameriguns, Dewi Lewis Publishing. Used with permission.         God bless free speech.      It is what allows...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Is a bicycle a "device"?

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     The wrong word grates.      Whoever in the Central Park Conservancy decided that bicycles, scooters, skateboards, etc., are "WHEEL...
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Monday, June 6, 2022

Chicago ‘not a hellhole’

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     Email is pretty useless, right? A firehose of poorly written press releases, hyperpartisan money grabs and weaponized malice.      Yet ...
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