All Stories from February 10, 2012 (Change date)
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Salsa dancing finds its footing in the suburbsFeb 10, 2012 5:00 am - Hayley Younkin learned to dance salsa while she was studying abroad in Ecuador. Her friend Megan LaRusso perfected her skills while abroad in Spain. The friends, both 22...
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Duckworth, Krishnamoorthi talk bipartisanshipFeb 10, 2012 4:30 am - The Democrats making a bid for the 8th Congressional District primary both identify partisan gridlock — on display during last year's debt ceiling crisis — as one of the...
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Lake County Coroner candidates spar over terrorism scenariosFeb 10, 2012 4:30 am - One of the Democrats in the Lake County coroner's race expressed concern about nuclear terrorism, accidental radiation exposure, biological attacks and the contamination...
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Local Boy Scout executive retires amid financial challengesFeb 10, 2012 4:30 am - The Northwest Suburban Council of the Boy Scouts of America's highest-paid employee has retired ahead of schedule amid dwindling financial reserves, officials said. The ...
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Spellman's scorecard: If BMW goes to Conway, get ready for a treatFeb 10, 2012 4:30 am - Ta-da!! One of the worst-kept secrets over the past year was that if the BMW Championship returned to Chicago in 2013, the front-runner to host the event would be...
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Report on PPA offered new insightFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - My comment is regarding Burt Constable’s article Jan. 29 on Primary Progressive Aphasia. My mother passed away at age 86 in 2008 due to kidney failure, six months after ...
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GOP’s murky rhetoric on national defenseFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding n...
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Avoid hysteria about religionFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Someone said to me that the possibility of the U.S. having its first non-Christian president is a sign of the apocalypse. This is the latest of numerous comments I have ...
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Chasing equalityFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Tuesday’s ruling by a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding unconstitutional the California ballot initiative that ai...
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A mention of Kirk would’ve been niceFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - It certainly would have been a very thoughtful “leadership” quality if the president had taken a few seconds out of his “I did this” and “I’m going to do that” speech, c...