 Just as backers had hoped and opponents feared, a new statewide school voucher program in Indiana is draining money from public education and offering new life to struggling parochial schools. | Let's keep religion out of politics Out there on Michigan Avenue, just a few hundred feet from Millennium Park, an aged man rested in a doorway, his feet stretched out beside a little sign that said, "God is Good." His clothing was crusty and he looked a little dingy around the edges. A battered plastic cup sat beside him. | | Editorial: How to salvage Chicago's TIFs Mayor Rahm Emanuel's TIF reform panel had its work cut out for it. No way does Emanuel want to scrap a redevelopment program that generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year. But public sentiment is sour toward tax increment financing, and for good reason. | | New words to live by Every year around this time, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary releases a list of words that will be added to its next edition. It's lucky that the announcement comes toward the end of August, when most humans want to go on vacation and most columnists, therefore, need to write an "evergreen." | |  | |
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