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Where is Loren Eiseley, now that we need him? I met him, in a manner of speaking, years ago, and then only by chance (how he would worry that word). He…
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Americans who work hard shouldn’t be poor. That’s what we’ve always believed as a nation. So, whether through ignorance or choice, we don’t really see the…
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What might the future look like? And how can Illinois prepare to meet it? These are a couple of the questions our editors and writers will attempt to…
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Someone in China opened Illinois Issues. Someone in Mexico did the same. Add France and Israel, South Africa and Japan. In fact, over the course of the…
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Editor's Notebook: Economic incentives cost but few officials can afford to turn their backs on jobsThe late state Sen. Aldo DeAngelis may have put the matter most succinctly. In the summer of 1989, he was listening none-too-patiently to criticism of the…
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An echo from the 1964 Republican National Convention has reached Illinois. The state’s Republican right controls the party podium; voters face a clear…
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In late 1982, Carolyn Marvin, a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on her book about how…
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Forty-two years ago, a government biologist and science editor helped launch an environmental revolution. In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson untangled…
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Hard to believe. A few years back, state leaders mailed property tax “rebates” to homeowners. They gave motorists a pass on the sales tax at the pump and…
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Samantha gave a lot of thought to her chances for a good education. A student at East St. Louis High, a down-and-out school in a virtually all-black,…