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- The CDC placing essential workers in Phase 1b is an important first step to include race and socioeconomics in determining who gets the first doses of the vaccine. However, given that the supply of vaccines will initially be limited, we must prioritize people of color who have suffered most from this virus.
- Underused schools are burdens—and not benefits—to the neighborhoods they serve. But closing them is tantamount to political quicksand. What’s an approach with promise? Involve those neighborhoods in the decision-making process.
- Donald Trump can avoid a federal criminal investigation once he's out of office by not pardoning Rudy Giuliani.
- That wailing you hear involving Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Joe Biden, and the left clinging to its ideological purity tests sounds like something out of a horror movie.
- President Donald Trump and his bad-at-everything, bewilderingly bonkers bandwagon of “rigged election!” liars are going to get somebody killed, quite possibly a Republican.
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Letters to the editor
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- When you’re the King of France, you have better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number.
- Every company should be working overtime to be more diverse. But the responsibility should fall with the CEO, not outsider regulators or other powerful entities.
- The recent death of Diego Maradona revives thinking on the decades-long tensions between Britain and South America.
- Columnist Eric Zorn becomes one of the last people in America to disconnect his landline telephone before history does it for him.
- The Chicago City Council recently approved a disastrous 2021 budget. It contains a $94 million property tax increase with an annual automatic inflation adjustment ...
- If strict COVID-19 safety measures are in place, schools (particularly for younger children) can be safe.
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