All Stories from October 25, 2012 (Change date)
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Newberry and Mabley have birthdays, but public gets giftOct 25, 2012 5:30 am - I can’t spend a day in the newsroom without thinking about my good friend and legendary columnist Jack Mabley. We sat next to each other for 16 years at the Daily Herald...
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Mount Prospect teen’s karate success like a movieOct 25, 2012 5:30 am - A Hollywood producer couldn’t have scripted Brandon Malone’s latest international fight any better. To set the scene in the sports-meets-coming-of-age tale, the Mount Pr...
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Taxing the wealthy as if it’s a sinOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - What if rich people just quit being rich? Almost every time the “sin tax” is raised on cigarettes, the amount of revenue goes down for the taxing body. This is well docu...
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America, finally home?Oct 25, 2012 5:00 am - The death of George McGovern on the eve of the presidential candidates’ foreign policy debate underscored a momentous political reversal spanning four decades. McGovern’...
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Muslim extremism gets too much attentionOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - Every time I open a newspaper or turn on a TV, my senses are assaulted by “Muslim rage,” and, frankly, I’m sick of it. Why news outlets are constantly revitalizing the a...
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Give peace a chanceOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. -- Forget “horses and bayonets.” The most important word uttered during the third presidential debate was “peace.” Mitt Romney, the un-bellicose, used it ...
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Schakowsky won’t be changing anytime soonOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - Let me see if I have this straight. You endorse Jan Schakowsky even though “her politics are more liberal than our tastes, and her frequent partisanship is counterproduc...
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Hart will advocate for natural resourcesOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - The Sierra Club, one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grass-roots environmental organizations in the United States, is pleased to endorse Sandra Hart for Lak...
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Obama outpoints Romney in third debateOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. — The “horses and bayonets” moment is probably the headline. But the larger story of the third and final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign p...
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Dawn Patrol: Aurora bird hoarder’s deadline; Larkin teacher attackedOct 25, 2012 5:00 am - Aurora bird hoarder must clean up home by Friday An Aurora man who admits he’s spent years hoarding hundreds of birds and mounds of garbage now faces a Friday deadl...