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Daily Herald opinion: Toward better democracy: ranked choice voting coming back to forefront in 2026

Daily Herald opinion: Toward better democracy: ranked choice voting coming back to forefront in 2026

The discussion about ranked choice voting for Illinois has gone quiet in the last year and a half, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been buried, killed by a fear...

 
Daily Herald opinion: Remove the debt ceiling: Repeated abuses show Congress must find a better way to fiscal discipline

Daily Herald opinion: Remove the debt ceiling: Repeated abuses show Congress must find a better way to fiscal discipline

Daily Herald opinion: We disagree with President Trump on many things, but we can find common ground on abolishing the debt ceiling.

 
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Daily Herald opinion: Illinois lawmakers must avoid the mistakes that created the state’s pension crisis

Daily Herald opinion: Illinois lawmakers must avoid the mistakes that created the state’s pension crisis

Daily Herald opinion: While some progress has been made in addressing the pension crisis in Illinois, state lawmakers need to stop the behavior that caused the problem in the first place.

 

Letters to the Editor

Find common ground on solving problems

Donald Trump is not your typical warm and fuzzy president. His mannerisms, ego, unnecessary name calling can be difficult to digest. His never-ending criticism of the Bid...

 

Read Obama; work for unity

“We the people” need to heed the words of President Obama. “We the people” need to keep our country for the people. All the people. “We the people” need to elect people w...

 
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Photo bar low, political

I must say that the bar has been set awfully low for the Top Photos of the Year when one is a rather generic photo of a banner waving in the wind just because it has an a...

 

Columns

How to fight a war, American style

How to fight a war, American style

Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion:

 
Thank you to my readers

Thank you to my readers

Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson:

 
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Monuments now, dust later

Monuments now, dust later

Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: With only three years left in his presidency, Donald Trump does not want to be forgotten, not ever. Like an emperor of olden days or a 20th-century tyrant, he is engraving his name on both old and new monuments wherever he can.

 

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