All Stories from January 13, 2013 (Change date)
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Tips for running with your canine companionJan 13, 2013 4:43 am - By Ellaine Kiriluk The Buddy Beat More and more people are running for exercise. My sister runs three miles a day. My niece and her husband are training for a 26K marath...
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Des Plaines officers receive medal of valorJan 13, 2013 4:41 am - The Des Plaines city council this week awarded medals of valor to city police officers Michael Kelly and Michael Oppegard for their courageous actions during a drug bust...
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Quad Cities gets in the spirit with micobreweries, distilleryJan 13, 2013 4:15 am - “This is Iowa. We grow corn,” says Ryan Burchett of Mississippi River Distilling Co. That was the argument he used to persuade the state to change its laws governing ha...
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New winter sports to experience on snowy terrainJan 13, 2013 4:02 am - STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — After nearly 50 years of living in the Rocky Mountains, I thought I knew how to enjoy the winter. I’ve gone skiing, skating, snowshoeing, snow...
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Armed guards at schools no solutionJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - I favor the right to own certain kinds of guns but was amazed at National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre’s suggestion that having armed guards at every school may ...
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Meet the new boss, same as the old bossJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - The newly sworn-in members of the Illinois legislature (with the exception of those facing criminal charges) are the taxpayers’ next best hope for integrity in governmen...
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Editorial: Let’s work together on school pension issueJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - Last week, a video surfaced showing Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, making inflammatory — and inaccurate — comments about “the gazillionaires” duri...
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Tragedy can bring country togetherJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - Living in this beautiful country grants us freedom. But unfortunately, the land of the free isn’t free of horrific tragedies. The senseless and brutal killings of innoce...
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Abortion also is a tragedyJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - Are guns the real problem? In the ten minutes it took a mass murderer to leave his car, break into a school full of children and kill 20 of them, in those ten minutes, o...
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Wife took wedding vows to heartJan 13, 2013 4:00 am - “For better or for worse” Those are the wedding vows my sister and her husband took in 1962. They had two sons and a typical marriage until 1981 when her husband was par...