Opinion
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Rich Miller on Springfield: Winners, losers in fight for Dem state party chairAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - One of the biggest unsung winners in the fight for control of the Democratic Party of Illinois is House Speaker Chris Welch. The new state party chair is state Rep. Eliz...
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Geoff Ritter: Sea squids stalk the soap aisleAug 05, 2022 1:00 am - 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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Rich Miller: Welch, Durkin take off the glovesAug 01, 2022 1:00 am - 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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Michael Jeffords: The Shawnee National Forest is changingAug 01, 2022 1:00 am - 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: With appellate court punting on masks, what happens when next variant arrives?Feb 21, 2022 12:00 am - 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 1:00 am - 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 24, 2021 1:00 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 1:00 am - 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 1:00 am - "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 1:00 am - 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...