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A maskless Vice President Mike Pence visits the molecular testing lab at Mayo Clinic on April 28, 2020, in Rochester, Minnesota, where he toured the facilities supporting COVID-19 research and treatment.

Column: No mask? No manners, no common sense. For businesses to open up, we all need to cover up.

April 30, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

"No shoes, no shirt, no service" has been no problem. Signs in doorways turning away unshod or bare-chested customers from stores and restaurants have been around since the early 1970s,...

Taking the new Tweet of the Week survey will be good for what ails you

April 28, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

To receive an email alert when the Tweet of the Week poll goes live, go to the Trib's newsletter subscription page to sign up. Instructions: Click the box next to...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks April 19, 2020, at the Thompson Center.

Column: Turnabout’s fair play: Illinois has been ‘bailing out’ other states for decades

April 28, 2020 at 2:12 p.m.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter midmorning Monday with an aggressive question: "Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example)...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers his budget address at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield in February.

Column: The top four arguments against the ‘fair tax’ and why they fail

April 24, 2020 at 4:47 p.m.

The response to my April 19 column, headlined "Now more than ever, Illinois needs a progressive state income tax," was as one-sided as I've ever received on any column. Well...

Column: Downstate hospitals with few COVID-19 cases still feel crush of pandemic

April 23, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.

Vermillion County, halfway down the state from Chicago along the Illinois-Indiana border, saw its first case of COVID-19 on March 31. That was more than three weeks after Gov. J.B....

FILE - This Feb. 21, 2020 file photo shows talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw speaking during a ceremony awarding him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Two television doctors — Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil — find themselves trying to explain comments made on Fox News Channel about the coronavirus. Dr. Mehmet Oz says he misspoke during an appearance where he said reopening schools was a "very appetizing opportunity" despite the coronavirus epidemic. Meanwhile, McGraw says he used bad examples while appearing on Laura Ingraham's show when he compared coronavirus deaths to deaths caused by cigarettes, auto accidents and swimming pools. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

This double-set of essential tweets is just what the (unlicensed) doctor ordered.

April 24, 2020 at 10:50 a.m.

To receive an email alert when the Tweet of the Week poll goes live, go to the Trib's newsletter subscription page to sign up. Another week with two “divisions,” a...

A golfer at the Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York, on April 19, 2020. New York state altered its guidance on April 17, 2020, by saying that golf courses could open with some restrictions because of COVID-19.

Column: Anti-lockdown protests have created a juicy opportunity for President Trump. He’s blowing it.

April 21, 2020 at 4:41 p.m.

"Let my people golf!" Those words on signs at anti-lockdown protests in San Diego and elsewhere in recent days are at once reasonable and outrageous. Reasonable because the slogan humorously...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker arrives for his daily coronavirus briefing from the Thompson Center in Chicago on March 28, 2020.

Column: Now more than ever, Illinois needs a progressive state income tax

April 17, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

In his daily briefing Wednesday afternoon, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out some very bad news about the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The shortfall for the budget year...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a briefing about the coronavirus at the White House on April 9, 2020.

Column: The partisan gulf on the pandemic is tearing us apart at a particularly bad time

April 16, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

About the only thing that seems to unite us as a nation during these troubled days is our high regard for Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of...

Claire Woodall-Vogg, a business systems administrator with the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, carries absentee ballots in Milwaukee on April 13, 2020.

Column: Wisconsin shows that expanding vote-by-mail opportunities deserves a stamp of approval

April 14, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

Wisconsin has given a double boost to the prospects for a robust expansion of mail-in voting this fall. The first boost came from the dismaying images April 7 of long...

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