South Elgin Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...
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Use county cash on feral cat problemApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in regards to the April 3 view, "Take responsibility when taking a pet." What a wonderful world this would be if people would be more responsible. I encounter ir...
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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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Justice finally prevails on youthful mistakeApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The test of any experience in the judicial system is simple enough. In the end, was the disposition fair? For a South Elgin youth first caught up in that system in 2002 ...
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Quit picking on firefighters, policeApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - As I read the editorial about the impact of police and fire pensions, I became increasingly upset because it appears the whoever authored it was biased against public se...
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Tell whole story on firefighter groupApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I couldn't help but chuckle at the claims made by the Northwest Municipal Conference in its opposition to pension adjustments for a unique group of Illinois fire fighter...
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Kane transit cash talk goes from 'I want' to 'we need'Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Seems there's nothing quite like a big pile of somebody else's money to make politicians' eyes light up and the saliva begin to flow. "When it began to dawn on people th...
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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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Saturday Soapbox: Homing inApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Potential adopters don't have to pay an adoption fee and adoptees don't have to submit to a bunch of inoculations, but the annual Adopt-a-Cougar program is all about fin...
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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...