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How to settle on a price for your homeMar 03, 2018 5:00 am - Q. When we get ready to sell our home, should we pay for a professional appraiser or just rely on Realtors' suggestions? Can we call brokers if we're really going to sel...
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Questions about garage door rulesMar 03, 2018 5:00 am - Q. I heard a story on the news about a homeowners association in California that fined owners for keeping the garage door of their unit closed during the day. This was a...
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Constable: Show must go on for man who is more than lounge pianistMar 03, 2018 12:00 am - Celebrating the biggest night in show business, Streamwood's Wayne Richards isn't going to let the 90th Academy Awards get in his way. "Fifty years ago, I made the deter...
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Rozner: Tiger Woods moving the PGA needle againMar 03, 2018 12:00 am - After capturing the Honda Classic a week ago, Justin Thomas said he had never heard roars like that on a golf course. But they weren't for the winner. They weren't even ...
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Grammar Moses: It's all 'well' and 'good'Mar 03, 2018 12:00 am - "Here's something you might have some fun with in Grammar Moses," wrote Jim Slusher, our deputy managing editor for Opinion, who really should be the regular author of t...
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Dim-witted way to wire a ceiling fanMar 02, 2018 6:00 am - Q. Last year I installed a dimmer switch on the ceiling fan in my living room. This enabled me to control the brightness of the light, as well as the speed of the fan. D...
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Congress asked to crack down on mortgage 'trigger leads'Mar 02, 2018 5:00 am - WASHINGTON - You've probably never heard of a "mortgage trigger lead." But as a consumer, you might be shocked to learn that in an era of massive data breaches and hacks...
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School safety more than a calling for archdiocese's new anti-violence chiefMar 02, 2018 4:30 am - Like everyone else, school safety is on Phil Andrew's mind a lot these days. But for Andrew, the former FBI agent recently named director of violence prevention initiati...
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Others proving they can use social media as well as Trump, NRAMar 02, 2018 12:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Donald Trump has always been extremely adept at using social media - first to win the election, and then to keep his cor...
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Xi is transforming China. Is Washington taking notice?Mar 02, 2018 12:00 am - Amid the flurry of news about Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner and this week's Trump reality show on guns, it would be easy to miss what's happening in China. But it is huge...