Opinion
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Five questions with ... Jonathan GerickeAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - Jonathan Gericke is owner of Logan Insurance in Harrisburg. Q. On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being disinterested and 10 being beyond ecstatic, how would you rate your eclips...
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Penalty shots: The eclipse, and then someAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that Monday was the day of the total solar eclipse. The first such event in the United States since 1979 and the first t...
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Our view: Coming Monday, a gift straight from the cosmosAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - Monday more than ever, we wish for clear skies. As Julie Zauzmer forecast in a mesmerizing lead to a story in The Washington Post, "In the middle of the day, the sky wil...
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Five questions with ... Brett Allen, owner of Sloan Street MarketAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - Q. Did you get your special eyewear for Monday's eclipse? Allen: Yes. I have special eyewear. You HAVE to be careful. Q. How concerned are you that North Korea and the U...
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Alcohol licenses are not always all that easy to obtainAug 17, 2017 1:00 am - Marion has 47 businesses in the community that have licenses to sell alcohol. Most are bars. Some are restaurants and some are package liquor stores. A few other busines...
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Miller: Rauner's war on Chicago schools could have Downstate implicationsAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Chicago has vast property wealth and the largest population by far in Illinois. But it also has a large amount of that property wealth locked up in Tax Increment Financi...
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Supporting your local businesses includes your hometown paper, tooAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - I have always believed in shopping locally first and foremost. Our family buys its gas in the town where we reside. We buy our groceries and incidentals, and regularly d...
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5 questions with ... David Higgs of HarrisburgAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - David Higgs III is a philosophy student at SIU Carbondale and hopes to become a teacher. Q. President Trump got good news this week when it was reported that more than 1...
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Your view: Are you ready for fall, or holding onto summer?Aug 11, 2017 1:00 am - Lynda Evans of Harrisburg: Both! I love swimming and fishing and just being able to go out and do things in the summer, but the cool weather is nice, too. I love looking...
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Penalty shots: Have patience with Menard investigationJul 26, 2017 1:00 am - It's been a rough 2017 thus far for Menard Correctional Center, as the facility has found itself in news circles quite a bit in the past few months. Two significant staf...