Jim Slusher
Managing Editor, Administration and Opinion at Daily Herald
Opinion editor for the Daily Herald, the voice of Chicago's suburbs. I also run, write fiction, read & wrestle with the three greatest sons any man could have.
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6 days ago |
dailyherald.com | Jim Slusher
Jim Slusher A posting on X this week from @DuPageCountyGOP wails, in large white type over a bright-red background: “In the last 30 days, 24 Downers Grove businesses have been robbed. This should be the lead story in every suburban paper. Why isn’t it?” In one sense that is a very easy question to answer.
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1 week ago |
dailyherald.com | Jim Slusher
Jim Slusher It remains to be seen whether a new U.S. Justice Department policy on journalists’ privacy rights will be a simple impediment to reporting sensitive stories about the government or a chilling sign of the Trump administration’s intent to use threats and punishment to deter stories it doesn’t like. But it’s an issue worth watching.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyherald.com | Jim Slusher
Jim Slusher When there’s a sudden lull in the cocktail party conversation in the Chicago area and no particular appetite for talking politics, a handful of topics invariably can be pressed into service to revive the energy. One of the most reliable is the traffic. It’s not so much that people love to complain about how hard it is to get to concerts, plays, sports events and all the other attractions of the city and suburbs. It’s more that you sometimes just have to vent. To vent the frustration.
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1 month ago |
dailyherald.com | Jim Slusher
Jim Slusher Tell the truth now. Don’t you wish you’d paid more attention in high school and college when your history and social studies teachers started talking about tariffs? You likely would have a much stronger foundation for discussing the primary topic roiling the country, and indeed the entire world, today.
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1 month ago |
dailyherald.com | Jim Slusher
Jim Slusher And so, we put another March behind us, thinking no more about lions and lambs but alternating our moods between Chaucer’s “shoures soote” and Elliot’s “cruellest time” as we cope with the vagaries of April. What else do we put behind us? Well, for one thing, a certain madness, it too in contrasting forms. The spring political campaigns at last have melted into an election and the powerful, if uncertain, hopes for its consequences.
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