Lake Zurich Opinion
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Readers keep the faith, and dish out some Cubs realityOct 15, 2007 11:00 pm - I had figured my "Cubs Sweep to the Pennant" column would fill this space today while I caught a flight back from Colorado. Instead I find myself in an odder place. "Bur...
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Every family needs a fire escape planOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - It is time for Fire Prevention Week, and this week from October 7-13 Antioch Fire Department is joining forces with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association (N...
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Even for maligned marathon, half-full glass close at handOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - If the Cubs could hit with men on base, the clear failings of this year's marathon would have been relegated to a front-page footnote. For the purposes of this column, I...
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Blackwater ran deep and dark for years on current fearOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - "Gentlemen, welcome to Baghdad." That was the announcement that came over the jetliner's loudspeaker as we landed in Iraq. The captain rightly used the word "gentlemen" ...
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Young journalists point to hopeful futureOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - In terms of business success, these are rugged days for newspapers. Any cursory look into business digests, stock tables or advertising-revenue trends will tell you that...
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Soapbox: Impressive response; happy endingOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Nine police officers, a helicopter unit and several other Lake Zurich municipal employees searched high and low Wednesday for a 6-year-old boy reported missing from him ...
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What would victory in Iraq look like?Oct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to James Wagner's Sept. 8 letter to editor headlined "Do Democrats want U.S. to lose in Iraq?" I ask what he considers winning in Iraq? Is the waste of 3,761...
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Many thanks to a caring communitySep 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Thank you to our entire community for assisting us in relocating more than 400 children to a new school. The storm-caused flooding at May Whitney Elementary School in La...
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Copy editors fail to make the gradeSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Jim Slusher's Sept. 20 letter to the readers raises the issue of the sometimes illogical spelling and grammatical rules of our English language. While I fully appreciate...
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Field wrong about women and warSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - At the 2007 Emmy awards, Sally Field, the former "Flying Nun," became Hollywood's latest "screaming Mimi." During her bloviating, she blurted out that if mothers ran the...