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Daily Herald opinion: Before the case grows cold: New law should help identify and find missing persons while trail is warm

Daily Herald opinion: Before the case grows cold: New law should help identify and find missing persons while trail is warm

Daily Herald opinion: The Missing Persons Identification Act will help find missing people faster by requiring police to take immediate action like entering data and fingerprints into systems when someone vanishes.

 
Daily Herald opinion: Hope and help: Challenging time for food pantries must be met with action

Daily Herald opinion: Hope and help: Challenging time for food pantries must be met with action

Daily Herald opinion: In challenging times for food pantries and struggling familes, those who can help need to step up.

 
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Daily Herald opinion: Crazy comes to health: Sadly, the polarized insanity of our politics has now spread onto our doctors' doorsteps

Daily Herald opinion: Crazy comes to health: Sadly, the polarized insanity of our politics has now spread onto our doctors' doorsteps

Daily Herald opinion: As vaccines eradicated dreaded diseases like polio, today's polarization spreads distrust of a critical medical tool, risking millions of lives. Politics should not outweigh public health.

 

Letters to the Editor

Wrong focus for gun ban

As a transplant to Illinois from Minnesota, I was sickened to read of the shooting of elementary-aged children at their school. This has become so commonplace in our gun-...

 

Let’s cut influence of money in politics

Would gun laws be stronger if gun makers did not make large political contributions? Would pharmaceuticals cost less if their producers did not make large political contr...

 
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Deny forum for pardoned insurrectionist

Stewart Rhodes, insurrectionist founder of the Oath Keepers and other ill-intentioned individuals, attacked the Congress of the United States on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attem...

 

Columns

Britain, land of the unfree

Britain, land of the unfree

Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: When the Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived at London Heathrow Airport recently, he was greeted by five armed British police officers who arrested him for — get this — three rude tweets.

 
Memory, meaning and the pursuit of magic

Memory, meaning and the pursuit of magic

Columnist Jim Slusher: The number 24 may not be special in itself, but on this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we are reminded that what matters is not simply that we remember. It is how we carry the memories forward in our daily lives

 
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The importance of holding, and hosting, G20

The importance of holding, and hosting, G20

Guest columnist Arthur I. Cyr: President Donald Trump has announced the United States will host the next meeting of the G20 in 2026 at his Doral Resort in Florida. This is major, and encouraging, news.

 

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