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Friday, April 24, 2026

We love trees. So why isn't Arbor Day a bigger deal?

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"A-mal-gam" by Nick Cave.      Happy Arbor Day! Did it sneak up on you, again? Or are you ready with the ... well, not a lot to do...
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Thursday, April 23, 2026

A note on comments

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  "Expressman" by Norman Rockwell (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      You can't comment after stories on the Sun-Times homepage,...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Praise the Lord and pass the Ozempic

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     Sure, I’m taking Ozempic. Aren’t you? Isn’t everybody?      OK, that’s an exaggeration. There’s also Zepbound and Wegovy and all those ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Put that mirror down or I'll sue!

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"Toppers," by Jan Pieter van Baurschelt (Rijksmuseum)      When the Trump Era finally comes to an end, with its corruption, cruelt...
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Monday, April 20, 2026

New AI platforms hand hackers powerful new tools for cracking cybersecurity

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Bundles of currency on display at the Federal Reserve Bank's Money Museum, 230 S. LaSalle St.       Everyone has a morning routine. With...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Barbara Flynn Currie, 'trailblazer who opened doors for generations of women' dies

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      This ran in the paper on Saturday.       After a vote in the Illinois House on a key part of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s pension relief ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Works in progress: Jack Clark in Paris

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Paris, 2017       Jack Clark spends his springs in Paris — talk about a good judgment call. This year he told me he was off for France with ...
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