Itasca Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage CountyJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiscally irresponsible graffiti Paper signs in the men's restrooms at the DuPage County courthouse remind gentlemen to flush urinals. However, several of the signs have ...
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Getting off the Soapbox to look at the rest of the storyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Actual corporate e-mail chain revealing the inner workings of the Daily Herald and its DuPage editor: (Editorial Page Editor John Zimmerman to Jim Davis): "Hi, Jim…Would...
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Test the waters in a new relationshipJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - I would say at least 99 percent of the people who go swimming test the waters before jumping in. Most of the time it's the foot that gets the dunk and swish, gauging eit...
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Nuances of passion sometimes are key to deciding story playJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Prominent trials are followed passionately by some people -- but not all. It was a reasonable enough question for a wife to ask her husband three days before a high scho...
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In remembrance of the D-Day invasionJun 09, 2008 11:00 pm - In remembrance of the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, I submit the following historical note. World War II began in the following manner: In order to drum up support f...
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Good start toward better health careMay 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It was extremely encouraging last week to hear one of the members named to a board overseeing Cook County public health care telling commissioners directly that, in ess...
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A little humanity in an increasingly heartless worldMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - If Jim Caudill weren't my friend. If I hadn't talked at length to the sister of a murder victim -- or to a friend of a man critically injured on his motorcycle. Perhaps,...
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage CountyMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Good luck, Judge Bakalis No one will deny DuPage Circuit Judge George Bakalis is earning his pay. He's already presiding over the arduous death-penalty murder case of Br...
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Liberals give the inspiration to writeMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Krueger (Fence Post, April 13). Krueger implored, "Keep on writing those letters, Mr. Toye, and keep inspiring me and many more like me..." ...
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Why it's becoming more and more all about youMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The pitch that came to Assistant City Editor Anne Halston was probably not unlike hundreds she has gotten in her 13 years as an editor at the Daily Herald. It went somet...