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Not the winning, but how we play the game

Most of us assume that, on Aug. 10, the U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team will play for a gold medal, and I assume many Forest Park youth will be watching. What messages, subliminally, will they be...

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School genealogy project has unanticipated result decades later 

Julie Brown (née Huebner) first became interested in genealogy in a history class at Proviso East High School in the late 1970s. Little did she know that decades later, this class project would lead...

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Do you work to live or live to work?

Another way to ask the question is, “Do you take work home with you?” Next Monday is Labor Day, a day set aside by the Federal Government in 1894 as a national holiday to recognize the millions of...

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Common sense sayings for a complicated time

In “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen, a vain emperor is duped into wearing an “invisible” suit of clothes and parades around town. Everyone watching goes along with the pretense,...

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God as political influencer

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 81% of Americans believe in God. The bestplaces website reports that 59.9% of our neighbors in Forest Park identify as “religious.”  Although the numbers in both...

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How religion acts as a political influencer

Rabbi Yitzchok Bergstein helped staff a Chabad Lubavitch booth at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and some of his rabbi colleagues did the same at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee. The...

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Condo associations as micro-republics

When I tell people I’m president of my condominium association, they often reply, “I’m so sorry for you.” Whether they get their impression of condo politics by way of personal experience or...

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Serenity to accept what I can’t change

My wife and I plan to have dinner at Yum Thai on Nov. 6, the day after the election. Here’s why: Several weeks ago I noticed that I was feeling anxious about the election. I had nightmares about what...

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Religious connections to Halloween 

When Forest Parkers think of Halloween, I suspect they think of trick-or-treating, scarecrows and the Casket Races, but Western culture has a way of reframing what were originally religious holy days...

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Concordia’s compassionate conservatives

Traditional conservatives in our area, I imagine, felt like they were caught between the devil and the deep blue sea when they voted yesterday. The devil is Donald Trump who has hijacked their party,...

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