Elburn Opinion
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Stable ACT scores can't mask concernsAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Why are so few Illinois high school graduates prepared for basic college-level academics? And how can matters be improved? Those again emerge as the most important quest...
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This group earned pink slips, not raisesAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Only a governor operating in left field and a legislature operating in the financial twilight zone could subject Illinois residents to such governmental ineptitude as we...
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Saturday SoapboxAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Bigger police force needs funding: A jump in felony arrests in 2006 meant Villa Park police had to work longer hours to investigate those cases. Now some village trustee...
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Saturday SoapboxAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Going, going gone: There's nothing quite like the Internet for spreading the word, it seems, even about stray animals. Since Kane County's new animal shelter started lis...
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Don't pull license when pulled overAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - In Illinois, you need a license to drive. But you also need that license to board an airplane. Or to get a marriage license. There are occasions when you must show a dri...
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Volunteering helps in so many waysAug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) has been assisting non-profit agencies throughout McHenry and Kane counties since 1987, when Senior Services Associates a...
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Memo to NFL: Keep vests, lose logosJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - In order for our work as journalists to mean anything and to be taken seriously, we must bring to our work a number of qualities. That list is lengthy, but a short versi...
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Letters to the editors - Tri-CitiesJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - A Ray of hope on St. Charles board After attending several past school board meetings, I concluded that several school board members wanted to dominate, control in secre...
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That's one for charter schoolsJul 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Suburban school officials never have cared much for charter public schools, viewing them mostly as interlopers who siphon cash off from a district's other schools. That ...
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Better for school board to shape up than resignJul 27, 2007 11:00 pm - When an "outsider" echoes the suggestion that some local print media and many residents in the school district have forwarded in the past few weeks regarding the St. Cha...