Antioch Opinion
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In midst of covering tragedy, journalists do care about sourcesFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Reporters and photographers play a role that goes beyond merely satisfying the public's curiosity about a shocking event. At times like these, news reporters aren't exac...
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Sheriff deputies deserve raisesFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - I find it appalling that the Lake County Board, the Lake County Sheriff and Lake County Administrator Barry Burton care so little about our safety that they have ignored...
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Karis: a 'true public servant'Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - With the passing of the Grand Old Lady of Lake County, Adeline Geo-Karis, I'm left with thankful appreciation that she often exhibited the virtues of a true representati...
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Soapbox: Goodbye, SenatorFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Journalists are a hardened, cynical bunch, but we were genuinely saddened upon hearing of former state Sen. Adeline Geo-Karis' passing this week. Geo-Karis, 89, of Zion,...
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Whom is misleading whom?Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - In a recent letter to the editor my Democrat opponent, Amanda Howland, accused me of "deliberately misleading" local taxpayers in regard to the increased RTA mass transi...
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Clemens case shows how 'whodunit' can supercharge a storyFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - As a high school journalism teacher many years ago, I tried to prepare students who cared little about current events and would never want to work for a newspaper to at ...
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If Obama knew, what would he do?Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Barack Obama insists that he was against the war in Iraq from the beginning but that raises the question, what did he know that administration advisors such as Colin Pow...
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Point to remember on suburban turnoutFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - The early line on last week's voter turnout in Cook County is something to crow about: record voter registration of 1.35 million, record early voting of about 60,000 ba...
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Saturday Soapbox: Hats offFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Lake County Clerk Willard Helander and her staff should be proud of the job they did recovering from the Election Night computer meltdown that delayed vote counts. The s...
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Grant: Thanks to all my supportersFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I want to say thank you to all the people who supported my primary campaign. I also want to say that I think that the Democrats ran a good clean campaign and the people ...