Itasca Opinion
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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Editorial: Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotchaJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Permit us, please, to make this nonpartisan observation about the 8th District Congressional race between Rep. Joe Walsh of McHenry and Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estate...
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To judges go the leftovers; a Ribfest retrospectiveJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - In the already-sweltering Ribfest tent, Naperville Mayor George Pradel rose to his feet last Sunday and bellowed out the rib judges’ sacred oath: “I do solemnly swear to...
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Editorial: Dangers to health and the public’s right to knowJul 01, 2012 8:37 pm - One day last week, Daily Herald Staff Writer Eric Peterson received a tip that hundreds of thousands of gallons of sludge leaked from the John E. Egan Water Reclamation ...
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Judging at Naperville Ribfest no laughing matterJul 01, 2012 5:00 am - As you read this, perhaps you’re on your second cup of coffee, contemplating some pancakes, maybe bacon and eggs. I’ll be snarfing down some barbecue ribs. As long as th...
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Photogs’ faves: From MJ to ?GuatemalaJun 24, 2012 5:00 am - So, Patrick Kunzer’s irascible photo editor tells him to get something other than the standard head-on shot. Something we’ve never seen before, maybe a behind-the-scenes...
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The SoapboxJun 23, 2012 5:00 am - 25 years for kids museum: DuPage County should be proud that the vision of Louise Beem and Dorothy Carpenter, who used a station wagon to move exhibits from one home to...
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Road rage lesson for the ages: Be like GandhiJun 18, 2012 11:00 am - It was more than 20 years ago, but I remember the discussion well. We were gathered in the boss' office planning the stories of the day. High on the agenda was a local c...
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A puppet for the 1 percent?Jun 17, 2012 5:00 am - A puppet for the 1 percent? Chris Grecos’ letter to the editor on May 30 gives the impression that U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam supports the elimination of tax loopholes ...
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Bin Laden may have the last laughJun 15, 2012 5:30 am - As I watch President Bush with his wife, Laura, on the evening news unveiling their portraits with President Obama and Michelle Obama, I think to myself: “We had it all....