 The following statement is factual and false: Barack Obama endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns.  | The year I became a 'minority' Is the sky falling for minority students because the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case seeking an end to using race as a preferential college admissions factor? |  | An anniversary we might want to forget, but shouldn't Sunday marks the 175th anniversary of Chicago's incorporation. Chicago has historically been a dangerous place — from harrowing fires and deadly tornadoes to the machine gun-toting gangsters of the Capone era. Yet one disease, caused by a tiny microbe, killed far more Chicagoans than all the natural disasters and criminals combined. Cholera, the scourge of the 19th century, was the most horrific public health threat in the city's history. |  | Endorsements for MWRD: Shore, Steele and Thompson Flooding basements. Clean tap water. Deep Tunnel reservoirs. Sewage disinfection. Asian carp. Whew. Environmental issues involving water quality, drainage and commerce are important to any metropolis — especially one built atop once-swampy lowlands. Which is why the board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District merits close attention from voters — and not just when deluges of rain overwhelm our flood-management systems and threaten our drinking water. | | What others are saying Of all the U.S. presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, none stands taller in history or exercises a greater lingering influence on American politics than Ronald Reagan. ... This veneration poses a dark danger — that Reagan will become associated with philosophies he never held and policies he never pursued. This is happening today with increasing force as neoconservative intellectuals and politicians seek to conflate Reagan's Cold War strategy with their push for American global dominance in the name of American values. | |  | |
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