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This is no time for democracy fatigue

Nov 19, 2020 10:27 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: If it's possible to contract something like democracy fatigue, this is surely the year to get it.
Timely slogan for voters: Beware

By Jim Slusher
Oct 22, 2020 10:24 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: In election campaign season, it can help to keep in mind this slight modification of a well-known Latin phrase referring to unregulated commercialism: caveat suffragator.
When the power of words obscures the search for facts

By Jim Slusher
Oct 2, 2020 8:43 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: Is state Rep. Amy Grant a homophobic racist unfit for office? Or is she someone who was set up in a deceitful phone call and then compounded her problems with careless language? Our editorial board has struggled with these two questions for the past two weeks.
Letter from the editor: Authorities might be silent, but we still seek details

By Jim Slusher
Aug 3, 2020 6:04 AM - Early in the morning on Saturday, June 27, something dramatic happened at a house on Picton Road in Roselle. More than a month later, we still don't know much about what it was. We know there was a shooting, that "multiple" people were injured and that one person died. We knew that much by the afternoon of the shooting. We published the basic information online then and on Page 3 of our Sunday, June 28, edition.
Anatomy of an editorial: How group engagement gives paper a singular voice

By Jim Slusher
Jul 16, 2020 11:40 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: A writer for an editorial board cannot escape a certain chill of anathema.
COVID-19 only added to the inspiration of this year's Fittest Loser competition

May 14, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: The coronavirus may seem to apply an annoying stain on every news story it touches -- and it seems to touch an overwhelming number of them these days. But there are some stories COVID-19 actually enhances.
Slusher: How many coronavirus deaths would you deem to be unacceptable?

By Jim Slusher
Apr 30, 2020 5:30 AM - The talk on television, on social media and in the newspapers is of flattening curves. Of opening up. Of defining, it seems to me, the number of infections, the number of deaths, that are unacceptable, so we can get below it.
When no one knows the person who is suffering

By Jim Slusher
Apr 16, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: There are important voices we sometimes cannot share. I'm sharing one today.
Our workplace is lonelier, but goal of valuable news is even stronger

By Jim Slusher
Apr 2, 2020 10:22 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: In May 2019, I wrote the following as the Daily Herald prepared to move from our offices just east of the intersection of Algonquin and Arlington Heights roads in Arlington Heights to our new offices just west of the intersection of Algonquin and Arlington Heights roads:
Controlling the spread of hopelessness

Mar 26, 2020 1:00 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: The notion that news organizations have a duty to expand beyond the sensational and the political in reporting the COVID-19 story is virtually the driving philosophy behind the decisions and approaches Daily Herald editors, reporters and photographers are making now.

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