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HERE’S TO OUR HEALTH: Health care needs most bipartisan approach

Ray LaHood, Cheri Bustos and Bob Dold promote bipartisanship as they disuss the shutdown and the politics of what’s at state for the state of health care in America at “The Importance of Bipartisanship” panel discussion sponsored by the Dirksen Congressional Center at Bradley University

Paul Gordon: Our senseless acts of bloodshed …

We’ve had enough of them in our history, haven’t we? I wonder what this country might have come to had Facebook or other social media existed in 1968 or thereabouts. Would Kent State have happened or would things have been even worse?

Bill Knight: Mama MAGA — make it make sense

BILL KNIGHT

A roundup of Donald Trump distraction and distortion seems like fiction — or prediction of masked thugs seizing people, cowering law firms and universities, judges and prosecutors, government agencies and private companies — plus institutions such as scientists, inspectors general, political opponents, and labor

Bill Knight: Will public media go dark and silent?

BILL KNIGHT

President Trump’s executive orders, cuts in GOP’s big bill are the ‘most serious threat ever faced by public broadcasting.’ So what will that mean to local agencies WCBU and WTVP, which rely on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?