Saturday, February 4, 2012

Opinion Express

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High school not confidential

Students in public high schools can't expect much in the way of privacy rights. The courts have said teachers and principals have a pretty free hand to search their lockers, rifle through their backpacks and even make them take drug tests.

Time to move on Medicaid spending Editorial: Time to move on Medicaid spending

When Gov. Pat Quinn spoke Wednesday about the state of the state, he gave a brief nod to the groaning cost of Illinois' single biggest operating expense: Medicaid.

The flaws of Mitt and Newt Chapman: The flaws of Mitt and Newt

Newt Gingrich has exquisitely sensitive moral antennae, and Mitt Romney's remark suggesting indifference to the poor sent it quivering. "I am fed up with politicians in either party dividing Americans against each other," he said. Yes, he did. Then he fell on the floor and laughed till he cried.

Today's columnists

Politics and the  cost of conscience Politics and the cost of conscience

Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or abortion.

Time to shatter the  black suicide myth Page: Time to shatter the black suicide myth

The death of Don Cornelius, creator and host of "Soul Train," brought two conflicting memories to mind: the weekly joy of that iconic program as a defining feature of black American pop culture, and the terrible pain inflicted on the surviving family and friends of those who commit suicide.


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