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Daily Herald opinion: The data center pause: It has its detractors, but Pritzker’s action does emphasize a problem’s urgency

Daily Herald opinion: The data center pause: It has its detractors, but Pritzker’s action does emphasize a problem’s urgency

Daily Herald Opinion: Whatever the governor’s political motive, the announcement of a pause on incentives for data center projects nonetheless emphasizes an urgent problem in need of legislative solutions.

 
Daily Herald opinion: Enough with the political blame: Lawmakers must summon urgency and leadership or lose the Bears

Daily Herald opinion: Enough with the political blame: Lawmakers must summon urgency and leadership or lose the Bears

Daily Herald Opinion: The most disappointing, and most useless, thing about the reaction among Illinois leaders to the Chicago Bears’ statement Friday that the franchise is advancing its plans to move to Hammond, Indiana, is that it was all about blame and nothing about what to do.

 
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Daily Herald opinion: Sip and stroll? Arlington Heights should proceed with caution for pilot program allowing to-go cocktails in alfresco area

Daily Herald opinion: Sip and stroll? Arlington Heights should proceed with caution for pilot program allowing to-go cocktails in alfresco area

Daily Herald opinion: Arlington Heights trustees weighing a pilot program that would allow to-go drinks in the alfresco area this summer need to put important guardrails in place.

 

Letters to the Editor

Health care ‘reform’ misses the problem

Gov. Pritzker should veto HB2371 and HB4327 and instead pursue reforms that ensure transparency is meaningful protected Illinois families from unnecessary health care cos...

 

Fans and Bears profits

When all is said and done, you can't blame Bears management for being shrewd, if manipulative, businesspeople. But you can point fingers at them for taking advantage of a...

 
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Study construction delay

It took eight months to build the Alaska Highway. We are going onto two-plus years rebuilding a 1.5-mile stretch of Arlington Heights Road from Checker Road to Route 83 i...

 

Columns

Counting votes in California

Counting votes in California

Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of the elections in California.

 
Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Last Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections.

 
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Dismantling ocean system another step backward for U.S.

Dismantling ocean system another step backward for U.S.

Guest columnist Keith Peterson: In recent days, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million decade-old ocean observation system that monitors coastal environments and powerful currents that impact the global climate.

 

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