Sun-Times Opinion

The latest columns, letters to the editor and editorials from the Chicago @Suntimes Editorial Board.

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To address the breadth and depth of the need to remediate outdated schools at a time of worsening weather extremes, Chicago needs an estimated $30 billion, two educators write. https://t.co/KmHlJ0MJOm

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Live theater in Chicago is in trouble. But the show must go on — and all of us have a role to play in making sure it does. https://t.co/dTAk3fOohU

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I’ve always lived in Chicago and have felt comfortable going just about anywhere, but now that criminals are emboldened, I’m afraid to go out, a reader from Irving Park writes. https://t.co/c0KTGEnUYV

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It’s not illegal for hate groups to spread their message via leaflets or protests, and that’s happening far more often these days, an Anti-Defamation League report found. It’s important to stop their rhetoric before it leads to harm. https://t.co/AsdQawaVXs

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Here are Wednesday's editorials:

"Seen any good theater lately? Now is the time" https://t.co/HRoxtg6X6G

"We must fight back against the propaganda that fuels hate crimes" https://t.co/0x96Q4k0HJ

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"How come the same parents who shrug off the very real prospect of their kids being murdered at school line up at board meetings to scream about 'Gender Queer'?" @NeilSteinberg writes. "It’s a puzzlement." https://t.co/mTX7A0vKXx

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An ordinance to be introduced this month would set Chicago on a managed transition away from the use of expensive, unhealthy natural gas, City Council members William Hall and Timmy Knudsen write. https://t.co/gr212wjwGW

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The correct action here would be a “yes” vote from the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, an important prelude to the factory’s redevelopment. https://t.co/drk3wZJgy0

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Traffic stops of Black drivers don’t prove police are guilty of racial profiling https://t.co/mQb4lVTbOq

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Striking UAW members see the fear-mongering of the auto industry. Americans are being told we have a Hobson’s choice on electric vehicles: We can have them, but only at a cost to our neighbors who build them. https://t.co/FOWJXYMEut

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African Americans are the only racial or ethnic group in Cook County whose suicide rates are now higher than they were at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/oagxuKnowh

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The city should maintain its policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, Ald. Anthony Beale writes, but needs federal help to afford the rising cost of resettling asylum seekers. https://t.co/lK6XBNPZyL

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Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today, such as school breakfasts, day care and sickle cell testing. https://t.co/tePjXLXJlg

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Tent pitched across from Chicago’s Ritz-Carlton causes a stir https://t.co/MW4heDbjil

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Women make up 70% of the wait staff in Chicago, and of 746 occupations analyzed recently, wait staff had the lowest median annual earnings, just $21,000. https://t.co/7xkZkWSK3Z

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Here are Tuesday's editorials:

"Sweet move: Chicago seeks to landmark West Side’s historic Mars candy factory" https://t.co/mD8Oxryahm

"Rising Black suicide rate demands attention" https://t.co/sfZ6GGETub

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Somebody — probably Congress or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — has to figure out how to get these projects up and running. https://t.co/gJkXKy8HeW

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Goals should be accompanied by concrete ideas — not vague intended actions. https://t.co/MCiSsk6sBL

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Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science https://t.co/WuvFXkLRLn

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If some critical mass of Republicans had demonstrated the requisite political courage in 2016, it would never have come to this — that in the U.S., political and other figures must think about their physical safety before deciding how to speak or vote. https://t.co/0aqqjt5LkG