All Stories from September 26, 2013 (Change date)
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Round Lake Beach teen enjoys brush with stardom on 'El Factor X'Sep 26, 2013 5:15 am - Brisila Barros' family can't get enough of the YouTube videos. Huddled around the tablet computer in the family room of their Round Lake Beach townhouse, they comb thro...
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Numbers don’t tell whole story in news decisionsSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - In the complex practice of employing news judgment, the role of numbers is not always as obvious as you might expect. Twenty-six shooting victims in a Chicago weekend ma...
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Elgin starts budget talks by looking at expensesSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Elgin City Council members discussed possible expenses as diverse as Riverside Drive and communications and marketing during a special meeting Wednesday that kicked off ...
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Editorial: Out of murder, a story of human valuesSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - When we think “suburbs,” a few specific ideas come to mind. We think “schools,” for instance. We like to think “safety.” We think “community” and “neighborhood” and “hom...
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Proposed Kane County budget defers pension problemSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Wary of following a path that created Illinois' pension woes, a handful of Kane County Board members are taking a hard look at a plan to partially fund about $6.6 millio...
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Francis the troublemakerSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Pope Francis’ blunt, conversational, subversive, disarming, humane, self-critical interview in the Jesuit publication America amounted to a sort of extemporaneous encycl...
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Punishment doesn’t fit the crimeSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Seeing how President Obama has handled the Syrian chemical weapons crisis makes me wish he was my father when I was growing up. He’d tell me that if I was caught smoking...
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Leashes vital to safety of dogs, humansSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - I heard about a dog getting hit by a car the other day. The dog was not on a leash when it decided to take off into the street. This past week, while walking my dog (on ...
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Bartlett native's Kenya roommate killed in mall attackSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - Looking forward to a barbecue later that day with her old roommates and other friends in Nairobi, Bartlett native Toni Maraviglia sent out a warning as soon as she heard...
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Lawmakers need a wake-up call on pensionsSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - The pension plan for the state of Illinois without a solution to date cause me to wonder if anyone realizes the cost of interest to the state. Perhaps a solution may be ...