Opinion
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Area health departments deserve praise for efforts against COVID-19Aug 25, 2020 11:00 pm - There are two basic reactions to threats to human life. A threat may be approached with panic and irrational fears, which usually does not bode well for anyone involved....
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100 years of woman suffrage: What difference has it made?Aug 25, 2020 11:00 pm - "Resolved, that it is the duty of women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise." In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton insisted t...
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Ritter: Clocking the slow crawl of pandemic timeAug 21, 2020 1:00 am - To gain real insight into the nature of time, you have to live through a pandemic. I'm not talking about some medieval, continent-killing plague. This is about the polit...
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Firefighters lending a hand is one example of region pulling togetherAug 18, 2020 11:00 pm - People are tired of hearing the words "coronavirus" and "COVID-19," and I'm certainly not the exception. Despite what some people think, though, there's no agenda at sta...
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If you don't like Snopes.com, you can't handle the truthAug 04, 2020 11:00 pm - Now more than ever before, it's critical to analyze information presented as news stories. Regardless of political affiliation or philosophy, there are plenty of blatant...
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More responses on the future of 'DQ Joe'Jul 14, 2020 1:00 am - LETTERS It's time to put DQ Joe in the museum To the editor: As a native of Du Quoin and graduate of the DTHS class of 1963, I am writing in support of Martha Malan's pr...
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Du Quoin Call survey: What you're saying about sending kids back to schoolJul 14, 2020 1:00 am - Our completely unscientific Facebook survey on how comfortable are parents sending their children back to school next month, produced 28 flat "yes," "Yes, full time," "d...
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Letter to the editor: Native Americans are not a 'thing' of the pastJul 10, 2020 1:00 am - To the editor: I read with some interest your July 7 article on the call to end the racist mascot of your local high school, DQ Joe ("1964 alumni says it's time to retir...
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Facebook reaction to the question of DQ JoeJul 10, 2020 1:00 am - Plenty of you have had opinions on the suggestion by 1964 Du Quoin High School graduate that the "Crazy Indian" mascot, or "DQ Joe," is a relic of the 1950s and should b...
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Survey: Should our kids go back to school next month?Jul 09, 2020 1:00 am - Currently, there is a lot of uncertainty about children returning to the classroom in August. We're looking for a broad spectrum of thoughts from parents in Perry County...