All Stories from July 17, 2011 (Change date)
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Soup Stop still feeding downstate hungry after 10 yearsJul 17, 2011 6:00 am - CHARLESTON — Soup Stop has been serving up free hot food and sack lunches to people in financial need for a decade now. The idea for this soup kitchen-style non-profit g...
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Utica businesses organizing for successJul 17, 2011 6:00 am - UTICA — Sixteen of Utica’s 63 businesses came to a recent Village Hall meeting with hopes of becoming a vibrant and necessary organization that would be able to weather ...
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Cuts to meals for Illinois elderly worry advocatesJul 17, 2011 6:00 am - Budget cuts to programs that deliver meals to homebound seniors in Illinois may force some frail elderly into nursing homes, a more expensive option for both the individ...
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Take heed of travel tips when on road with your petJul 17, 2011 6:00 am - I recently took my dog, Kasey, to the veterinarian for his distemper/parvo vaccinations. We went into the treatment room and took our seats. While Kasey hid under the wo...
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Workers fight for $50-a-month factory jobs in EgyptJul 17, 2011 6:00 am - TALKHA, Egypt — The sun was already searing the pavement on the early June morning when Mariam Hawas and her co-workers from the garment factory descended on the bank. T...
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Return budget surplus to taxpayersJul 17, 2011 3:00 am - School District 95 approved a budget with an $846,000 surplus. Rather than have a surplus, why not reduce registration fees that have increased repeatedly? Better yet, r...
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Reduce the bloated federal governmentJul 17, 2011 3:00 am - In my opinion Barack Obama’s ability to be the president of this country is lower than any chief executive we have had in my 84 years of existence. Yes, even Jimmy Carte...
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DREAM Act would give teens hopeJul 17, 2011 3:00 am - As a Palatine junior high math teacher, I fight the issues in my classroom daily that accompany poverty (52 percent of my school) and English-speaking status (46 percent...
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Policy pledges have limited valueJul 17, 2011 3:00 am - A revolt gathers among Republicans against the place of pledges in politics. First, Sen. Tom Coburn declared his independence from a portion of the Taxpayer Protection ...
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Little respect for ConstitutionJul 17, 2011 3:00 am - We should not be too surprised that the president has little respect for the Constitution. He told us as much in his Jan. 18, 2001 radio interview on WBEZ. He said the C...