Columns
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Here's a rare feel-good storySep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Finding the good guys among the college football coaching ranks is generally akin to spotting a needle in a stack of needles. Which is what made Saturday's showdown betw...
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Sometimes married couples can get too comfortableSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - This really happened. A woman found her marriage of 10 years to be increasingly empty. Though her husband had a decent job, shared in household responsibilities, was goo...
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Oops, he booked the wrong hotelSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. I booked a hotel room directly through the Daysinn.com Web site. I thought I had reserved a room at the Days Inn in Franklin, Ind., but somehow I ended up with a ...
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TriCity Family Services has grownSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Those who have been around TriCity Family Services since its inception understand how the agency has grown from a coffeehouse for teens in 1967 to a broad range of essen...
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Four decades of service to the communitySep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Those who have been around TriCity Family Services since its inception understand how the agency has grown from a coffeehouse for teens in 1967 to a broad range of essen...
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Taking the kids to two of the seven new world wondersSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Introducing kids to history through travel beats reading a textbook, but oh, some of that travel can be painful. I easily recall blistering summer heat while walking dow...
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War is no answer? That really depends on the questionSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - OMAHA BEACH, Normandy -- On a bluff above the sand and a half a mile from the ocean's edge at low tide, which was the condition when the first allied soldiers left their...
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A diamond is this girl's best friendAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Loud, screeching chants of "You go, girl!" were commonplace last spring at freshman boys baseball games at Warren High School in Gurnee. That's right. "You go, girl" at ...
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Driving fuel-efficient hybrid has been fun experienceAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Last week, the price of gas at a Naperville station on 75th Street went from $2.87 Tuesday morning to $3.09 that afternoon. Once, that would have really bugged me. Not s...
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Buffalo Grove's a tricky town -- if that is its real nameAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - On this holiday weekend when cops are on the prowl, there is no telling who might pull you over for traffic offenses in Buffalo Grove. That burly landscaper mowing the g...