Opinion
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Rich Miller On Springfield: How much has Jesse White meant to down-ballot Democrats?Sep 07, 2022 1:00 am - Way back in 1996, I spent a few minutes walking around the Chicago-based Democratic National Convention with then-House Minority Leader Michael Madigan. Madigan at the t...
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Rich Miller on Springfield: Special session on abortion looking more unlikelySep 01, 2022 1:00 am - Back in early July, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the two Democratic legislative leaders, House Speaker Chris Welch and Sen...
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Guest view: SIU should cut football to benefit other university sportsSep 01, 2022 1:00 am - As Southern Illinois University begins yet another school year with roughly one-half the students it once had, administrators are trying to staunch the red-ink bloodlett...
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John Shaw: Inviting Illinois college students to help Renew IllinoisAug 24, 2022 1:00 am - As summer winds down and fall approaches, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University is eagerly gearing up for one of our signature events: t...
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Geoff Ritter: A cool drink of pessimismAug 24, 2022 1:00 am - The glass is half-empty or half-full. Or, there's just water and broken glass at our feet. It turns out many of us are trending toward the extreme latter. Facing unprece...
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Rich Miller/On Springfield: Bailey nails state fair speech, but where's the money for TV?Aug 24, 2022 1:00 am - The two days of partisan political events during the Illinois State Fair are like miniature, stripped-down, informal versions of national political conventions. They ser...
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Geoff Ritter: Waiting on Lincoln's 'better angels' to finally show upAug 16, 2022 1:00 am - Seven states had declared they were out, the nation was on the brink of civil war, and Abraham Lincoln took the stage on Inauguration Day with this tone-deaf little nugg...
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Rich Miller on Springfield: Pritzker's not taking his foot off the gas against BaileyAug 16, 2022 1:00 am - The ongoing uproar over Darren Bailey's 2017 claim that the Holocaust "doesn't even compare on a shadow" to the lives lost to abortion reminded me of a scene in an old m...
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Geoff Ritter: The perils of monkeypox messagingAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - "While direct illness will subside, certain symptoms may remain. Consult your doctor or physician if some actually get way, way worse, which is likely." Those words aren...
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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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