Huntley Opinion
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Board must inject reality into negotiationsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Two stories on the front page last week could not have shown more starkly the vast and growing gulf between the public and private work forces in this country. At the to...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Be more skeptical of that wire copyApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Your paper has carried recent AP wire copy story of the discovery of the USS Sydney, lost in World War II. The story describes the vessel as a battle cruiser, very much...
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District 158 getting leadership it needsApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Notice how little negativity appears in the local paper these days regarding Huntley School District 158? I like to think that is due to the leadership of Superintendent...
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Chronicling elusive standard of judgment by 'content of character'Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: Sometimes the news is its own object lesson. Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Krone worked for a week and a half to find and interview suburbanites who c...
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Kane transit cash talk goes from 'I want' to 'we need'Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Seems there's nothing quite like a big pile of somebody else's money to make politicians' eyes light up and the saliva begin to flow. "When it began to dawn on people th...
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Educators aren't just principals, teachersApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Now comes the story of Al Weber. Weber, as Daily Herald reporter Sheila Ahern wrote last week, was not what we normally think of when we hear the word educator. He was ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Homing inApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Potential adopters don't have to pay an adoption fee and adoptees don't have to submit to a bunch of inoculations, but the annual Adopt-a-Cougar program is all about fin...
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Transit, water money went elsewhere?Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - To the "Transit backers seeking money" mentioned in Joseph Ryan's March 26 article and the Kane-DuPage Soil & Water Conservation District mentioned in Josh Stockinger's ...
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Some interesting newsmakers aren't the usual newsmakersApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - We don't always have to look to Hollywood, Washington or Wrigley Field to find people with the most-interesting or even most influential lives. Where do you go to meet t...