This board’s job is to have an opinion. We regularly manage to anger a good chunk of the folks who read our page no matter what position we take on the issue of the day.

Recently, a rankled reader wrote in suggesting we all jump off a bridge over our take on the Trump-Johnson-Pritzker standoff on crime and federal intervention. Given the growing chill in the air, we politely declined.

Point is, if you have an opinion and you share it, someone out there will disagree with you. That shouldn’t dissuade you — it’s perfectly normal. And it shouldn’t deter you from engaging with people who hold wildly different views. Often, we learn from the folks whose positions differ from our own; either they persuade us or they help us refine our opinion. That’s a beautiful thing, and one of the surest pa

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