Lily Lake Opinion
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Editorial: Suburban cops going into the ring to reach outOct 25, 2013 5:00 am - Jeff Swoboda knows well that the most effective police work is in getting to know the people in your community — to show them you’re just as human as they are and to gai...
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Soapboxing on radical-turned-speaker Bill AyersSep 29, 2013 5:00 am - Sunday Soapbox. Some opinions require lots of words and elaboration. This is my Sunday Soapbox, not-so-briefly-stated commentary from one Daily Herald editor, and shamel...
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Editorial: Truancy, heroin problems are intertwinedSep 27, 2013 5:00 am - If you read Sunday’s paper you may have seen two stories — one about Naperville’s unified attack on heroin use, the other about Kane County’s runaway truancy problem. Wh...
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The SoapboxAug 31, 2013 5:00 am - Rudeness at its worst: Sad note the other day about a mother dreading the start of school because she has to get her disabled child on a bus. That’s not the sad part. Sh...
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Clowns deserve more respectAug 30, 2013 5:00 am - On Tuesday’s editorial page, Kathleen Parker commented that she finds clowns creepy. As an amateur clown myself, I’d like to weigh in on this issue. It’s unfortunate tha...
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Remembrance rescue truck visits West ChicagoAug 29, 2013 11:00 pm - West Chicago, Illinois: August 30, 2013 – West Chicago business owners Kent Jean and Kevin Fett of Evo Exhibits welcomed one of two remaining Rescue Trucks from 9/11 to ...
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The SoapboxAug 17, 2013 5:00 am - Here they come: With the return of today’s International Festival of Racing, once again Arlington International Racecourse gets a chance to show the world what a first-c...
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The SoapboxAug 03, 2013 5:00 am - View from the ground level: Village leaders do a better job when they really know their towns, and that’s why we applaud West Dundee trustees for taking their recent boa...
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Editorial: Finding lessons in a bureaucratic foul-upJun 25, 2013 8:16 am - There is something instructive in the fix in which Kane County finds itself over more than 1,000 DUI convictions that were not properly reported to state authorities. Pr...
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The SoapboxJun 22, 2013 2:24 pm - Death-and-taxes conundrum: In an ashtray-half-full/half-empty way, the state of Illinois this week lamented making $138 million less than expected on the $1-a-pack cigar...