Algonquin Opinion
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7-year-old’s birthday plans were upstagedNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The day President Kennedy was shot was the day before my seventh birthday. I was in second grade at Green Valley School in Lombard. I don’t remember exactly when or how ...
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Bishop should end policy of exclusionNov 17, 2013 3:40 am - Bishop should end policy of exclusion In yet another disappointing letter read to us during Mass, Bishop David Malloy of the Rockford Diocese slammed the Illinois G...
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The SoapboxNov 16, 2013 4:00 am - It was a quake: Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey say it was an earthquake that shook some western suburbs after a quarry blast earlier this month — further evide...
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Editorial: Addressing the issue of campus rapeNov 08, 2013 8:38 am - Rape on our college campuses is not an occasional thing. National studies, including the Department of Justice-funded Campus Sexual Assault Study, have concluded that on...
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Editorial: NFL bullying case is a teaching momentNov 06, 2013 4:00 am - Clearly the timing couldn’t be better for Indian Prairie Unit District 204 and its parents council to host a bullying prevention presentation tonight at Crone Middle Sch...
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Editorial: Suburban cops going into the ring to reach outOct 25, 2013 5:00 am - Jeff Swoboda knows well that the most effective police work is in getting to know the people in your community — to show them you’re just as human as they are and to gai...
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Editorial: Continue senior, disabled bus serviceOct 11, 2013 5:00 am - Washington, D.C., is not the only place where politicians are having a difficult time compromising before a deadline halting constituent services. On a much smaller scal...
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Soapboxing on radical-turned-speaker Bill AyersSep 29, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is my Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly-stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shamel...
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Editorial: Truancy, heroin problems are intertwinedSep 27, 2013 5:00 am - If you read Sunday’s paper you may have seen two stories — one about Naperville’s unified attack on heroin use, the other about Kane County’s runaway truancy problem. Wh...
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God's Journey at Algonquin churchSep 15, 2013 11:00 pm - Artist Julie Kukreja, of Pen and Mouse Design, decorated the Children's Sunday School rooms at Christ United Methodist Church in Algonquin with a large wall drawing of t...