Opinion
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Geoff Ritter: Sea squids stalk the soap aisleAug 05, 2022 9:27 pm - Call it a wash? A "wash," in this instance, is being confronted with competing things that are ultimately equal, where "one side does not have an advantage," according t...
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Michael Jeffords: The Shawnee National Forest is changingAug 10, 2022 9:48 pm - I am 72 years old. I've been exploring the Shawnee National Forest since I was 11. Simple math! I grew up on the southern edge of the Shawnee, and a friend and I (older ...
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Rich Miller: Welch, Durkin take off the glovesAug 01, 2022 8:11 pm - During a sometimes-fiery interview last week, House Speaker Chris Welch pledged to tie House Republican candidates to the far-right top of their ticket and called House ...
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Rich Miller: With appellate court punting on masks, what happens when next variant arrives?Feb 21, 2022 1:38 pm - This entire controversy over Sangamon County Judge Raylene Grischow's odd ruling earlier this month that statewide mask/vaccine/testing mandates at schools are a "type o...
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Robert Carroll Rich, formerly of HarrisburgNov 03, 2021 10:57 pm - One person had the gift to write a notice announcing that Bob Rich has died. That person was Bob Rich. For that reason, the small club who understood every inch of his l...
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Rich Miller/From Springfield: Can 'Conscience Act' be used to skirt vaccine mandate?Sep 29, 2021 12:44 am - After well over a year of successfully fending off every legal challenge to his executive powers during the pandemic, it now appears that Gov. J.B. Pritzker might have r...
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Letter to the editor: U.S. must do more to strengthen power grid against attackSep 21, 2021 10:05 pm - To the editor: We must do more to strengthen our power grid against an electromagnetic pulse event. Such an event can result from an attack by terrorists or by another c...
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Rich Miller: A new day and a new way in Illinois politicsSep 16, 2021 11:41 pm - "This is what decentralized, collective leadership looks like," declared House Speaker Chris Welch's spokesperson Jaclyn Driscoll not long after the chamber approved the...
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Rich Miller: I risked political Illinois State Fair events - and got luckyAug 31, 2021 10:47 pm - The week of Governor's Day and Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair is always packed with political events. And this year was no exception. It's impossible to atten...
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Seeking Harrisburg-area descendants of Stephen D. GoldenSep 10, 2021 2:01 pm - To the editor: I am hoping to make contact with family members from a Stephen D. Golden (1860-1913) who died in Harrisburg. He had married Lucy Cain (1869-1929) and they...