Sleepy Hollow Opinion
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Report Card results: Good, but familiar problems persistDec 12, 2007 10:00 pm - We continue to score a respectable B overall, but the areas in which we fare least well remain the same. It is a source of both encouragement and concern for us that th...
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Bad idea to insult parents' intelligence; talk reality, not policyDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - There's one truth about parents. They tend to focus on their own kids to the exclusion of almost anything else. That's why I've always thought it unwise for schools to s...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Fox Valley Soap BoxNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - Help or more bureaucracy? One can make a plausible argument, as Community School District 300 did, that high school department chairs can provide more hands-on teaching ...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...
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From bathroom attendant to JFK-era whistleblowerNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - The holidays are always a difficult stretch for Abraham Bolden. Not only did his wife die at this time of year, but so did his president and so did a little of bit of hi...
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Fox Valley SoapboxNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Too bizarre In one final sop to his party, Dennis Hastert is likely to leave his U.S. House 14th District seat before the end of the year. That will trigger the need for...
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Tri-Cities SoapboxNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Too bizarre In one final sop to his party, Dennis Hastert is likely to leave his U.S. House 14th District seat before the end of the year. That will trigger the need for...
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Damaging prank not very amusingNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Damaging prank not very amusing I woke up this morning to find our trampoline and a swing tipped over. I later found out my neighbor's trampoline and children's toys wer...