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Monday, August 12, 2024

'Our future is at stake'

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     Joe Biden won Illinois in 2020 by 17 points, 57% to 40%. There's every indication his vice president, Kamala Harris, has an equally...
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Sunday, August 11, 2024

Flashback 2004: 'At the top of the list of the good guys'

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    How do you prepare for a national political convention? I'm not a political reporter, but I knew one of the best, Steve Neal. So I p...
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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Flashback 1997: Italian eatery unafraid to dish out stereotypes

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      Ah Buca di Beppo. There was a time when the crazily over-the-top Italian eatery was part of my life — there was one on Clark Street, a...
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Friday, August 9, 2024

Josh Shapiro was good, but no Tim Walz

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     Something special, exclusively for EGD readers. Typically, I run a few paragraphs of my Sun-Times column then link to the paper — they ...
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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Gene & Me: The Ecstasy of Defeat

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      Hard to express just how small a part of my consciousness is taken up by the White Sox. I think about topology more. Somewhere between...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Wisconsin State Fair notes: Aloof cows, proud pigs and Original Cream Puffs

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     I approached a group of young women at the Wisconsin State Fair.      "What can you tell me about Wisconsin dairy?" I asked o...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Another day at the blood laundromat

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        Sunday I posted "Living Legacy," my cover story in Rotary magazine about encouraging people in India — and everybody else...
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