Editorials
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Soapbox: This aud-it do it in Dist. 303Oct 31, 2021 5:42 pm - A very good idea has emerged in the St. Charles school district, where officials have instructed auditors doing their annual work to break down and report specifically h...
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Soapbox: The new Randhurst; what's bugging you?Oct 31, 2021 5:41 pm - The Randhurst Shopping Center has been such an integral part of the Northwest suburbs for decades. Here's hoping that plans to build it anew as Randhurst Village are suc...
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No gas-tax hike for infrastructureOct 31, 2021 5:41 pm - A proposal by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise the federal gasoline tax to repair bridges comes at a bad time. While we agree that a lot of our br...
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Jones acting like a politician at the end of his runOct 31, 2021 5:36 pm - If this year's legislative session is any indication, Democratic Senate President Emil Jones Jr. appears like a politician at the end of his run. The old-school lawmaker...
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Jim and Jake's Ogden Adventure (read the column; see the video)Oct 31, 2021 5:35 pm - The city of Naperville wants to do a makeover of Ogden Avenue. I'm presuming city fathers would like it to be as attractive and successful as its downtown. That's no mea...
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A real-life baseball tale shows that redemption and glory are possibleOct 31, 2021 5:33 pm - In the fable, the farm boy phenom makes his way to the big city to amaze the world with his arm. At a stop at a fair on the train ride to Chicago, he strikes out the Bab...
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Wanted by disillusioned public: leadersOct 31, 2021 5:34 pm - While candidates and pundits wonder endlessly if a presidential wannabe is black enough or woman enough, too Mormon, too liberal or too conservative, voters and taxpaye...
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Emotion, conflict help put life in budget storiesOct 31, 2021 5:23 pm - Budget stories always present a quandary for newspapers. On one hand, tracking how governments spend tax money is one of the most important things we do in a democracy....
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Thompson will attempt to shake the status quoOct 31, 2021 5:22 pm - When Fred Thompson makes his entrance into the Republican presidential race, he will try to shake up the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation i...
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Stable ACT scores can't mask concernsOct 31, 2021 5:21 pm - Why are so few Illinois high school graduates prepared for basic college-level academics? And how can matters be improved? Those again emerge as the most important quest...