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Daily Herald opinion: Turning gratitude into action: Vets’ Habitat for Humanity project shows what true service looks like

Daily Herald opinion: Turning gratitude into action: Vets’ Habitat for Humanity project shows what true service looks like

It is easy to thank veterans with words. But Habitat for Humanity turns gratitude into action. By focusing on veterans’ housing needs, the organization is addressing a crisis too often overlooked.

 
Daily Herald opinion: A project ‘works out’: Two years after removal of Graue Mill dam, benefits growing around and under waters of Salt Creek

Daily Herald opinion: A project ‘works out’: Two years after removal of Graue Mill dam, benefits growing around and under waters of Salt Creek

When a complex and controversial project proposal proves its merit, it deserves to be — nay, needs to be — applauded. So it is with the removal of the Graue Mill dam at F...

 
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Daily Herald opinion: The New York mayoral election is historic, yes; but early reads on its implications seem overblown

Daily Herald opinion: The New York mayoral election is historic, yes; but early reads on its implications seem overblown

What to say about Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York? Let's start with Republican congressmen Randy Fine of Florida and Andy Ogles of Tennessee asking th...

 

Letters to the Editor

More analysis needed on transit fares

In New York City, the Transit Authority is trending toward 32% of revenue coming from fares in 2026. For us here in Chicago the number is 25%. In Washington, D.C., it’s 2...

 

Boycott ballroom donors

Upset? Livid? Outraged? That the East Wing of our White House has been not altered but demolished to make way for a grand 1,000-person ballroom? I am and I’m looking at t...

 
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Where are true reforms?

The government shutdown has brought a focus on SNAP benefits. If one in eight people are receiving this benefit, it seems some reforms are needed. Why is this the case? T...

 

Columns

Trump's biggest election loss happened in California

Trump's biggest election loss happened in California

Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:

 
Aside from punditry, keeping our coming primaries in perspective

Aside from punditry, keeping our coming primaries in perspective

Columnist Jim Slusher: There were precious few off-year elections around the country last week, but those we saw produced a bounty of analysis, punditry and political hand-wringing. Perhaps more than anything, this is a sign of the tensions governing our election politics these days.

 
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Bad news for Republicans, warnings for both parties

Bad news for Republicans, warnings for both parties

Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: In the 2025 gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats performed significantly better than expected, indicating a potential backlash against the Trump Republican Party. Ironically, an adverse Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s tariffs could be his saving grace.

 

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