Itasca Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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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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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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Fire chief's sudden departureApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The sudden departure of John Wu as Naperville's fire chief raises all sorts of questions this week as to exactly what happened and why. Rumors, of course, are flying all...
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Saturday Soapbox: 75 percent of life ust showing upApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Whoever said that might have had Todd Stroger in mind. At Palatine's request, the Cook County Board president has agreed to come to Harper College on April 30 to defend ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Fire chief's sudden departureApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The sudden departure of John Wu as Naperville's fire chief raises all sorts of questions this week as to exactly what happened and why. Rumors, of course, are flying all...
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Jack Bauer and Smokey the horse jump through hoopsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - My last column about dogs chronicled the gut-wrenching decision last fall to put to sleep our 13-year-old Boston terrier, Fudge. The upside of losing a dog, I guess, is ...
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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...
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Cures for what ails costly MedicaidMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - No doctor would tell a patient, "You desperately need surgery, but we can wait until next year, or the year after that." Yet that is the approach that has been taken in ...
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Finding balance key to a happy lifeMar 30, 2008 11:00 pm - What's your legacy? What will you leave behind that people will remember? I'm not talking about tangibles like money, land and jewelry. I mean, what will people say abou...