Antioch Opinion
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Endorsement: Antioch ambulance service: YesMar 20, 2015 1:00 am - New taxes are never an easy sell, but extra care must be taken by voters when deciding ballot issues that involve public safety. Such is the case when voters in Antioch ...
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Endorsements: Howland, Griffin, Anderson for CLC boardMar 18, 2015 1:00 am - For a brief time in early 2014, it looked as though some loose controls on travel spending by board members could overshadow the many very good things going on at the Co...
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The SoapboxMar 07, 2015 1:00 am - So sad. So young. We, too, grieve for loss of Ally Bradford and Seth Egger, the Aurora Central Catholic High School students killed when their SUV collided with a s...
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Rumors were wrong about response timeFeb 28, 2015 12:00 am - After a situation in early February, rumors emerged that it had taken the Antioch Fire Department 30 minutes to respond to a call for ambulance service at the Antioch Up...
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Dominiak, Crosby and Jozwiak for Antioch Village BoardFeb 17, 2015 12:00 am - The Antioch Village Board was handed a hot potato when state investigators uncovered a host of serious problems in the Antioch Rescue Squad, which long had provided ambu...
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'Fair share' unfair to adjunct profsFeb 17, 2015 12:00 am - I am an adjunct for a community college. Due to the rules of the school, adjuncts are only allowed to teach a specific number of hours per semester. I teach a class th...
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Editorial: Rescue squad bypasses the high road in ambulance donationFeb 09, 2015 10:00 pm - Taxpayers have made it clear they want and expect cooperation between local governments to save them money, but it appears the troubled Antioch Rescue Squad wasn't liste...
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Editorial: Facts don't support gambling expansionJan 22, 2015 4:01 am - While Pat Quinn was governor, he twice vetoed plans to license more casinos and add slot machines at horse-racing tracks. Now, with Gov. Bruce Rauner installed in Spring...
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Public shouldn't pay for electronics recyclingJan 01, 2015 4:01 am - SWALCO is being hit with as much as $200,000 in costs for 2015 because electronics goods manufacturers are failing to accept responsibility for their share of the cost o...
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Editorial: The need for openness on housing projectsDec 08, 2014 10:00 pm - You might be tempted to think local governments communicate with each other better than they do with the rest of us, but that's not always the case. Officials in Ela Tow...