Sugar Grove Opinion
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Matter of fairness on hookah loungeMar 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Cultures, health issues and the finer points of the law clashed over smoking lounges in Schaumburg last week. In the end, common sense won a narrow victory -- but it was...
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So bamboozled that fertilizer is caviar?Mar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - I have been sitting here reading stories about Obama's "great speech" on race and racial relations. The speech I saw wasn't great by any stretch of the imagination. One...
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Attention-getters aren't always what sell newspapersMar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - We strive for a front page that, rather than concentrating on the lure of death and destruction, is teeming with the activities of real life. ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Those ringing phonesMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - A bill has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly that would ban those annoying "robo-calls" from politicians seeking your vote. You have to like this bill, t...
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Foster, supporters offer us new hopeMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - You know it's a very different candidate when your newly elected congressman asks one of several Nobel laureates to stand beside him during a victory speech. Actors, at...
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Bill Foster's election seems healthy signMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - I was heartened with the election of Bill Foster to replace Dennis Hastert in the U.S. House, particularly since our area is often so staunchly Republican. I personally ...
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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If GOP wants seat back, pick LauzenMar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Many of those with political experience in the Fox Valley are working to analyze the results from our March 8 special election to fill the U.S. House seat left vacant by...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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Hastert at fault for loss of OberweisMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Republican candidate Jim Oberweis lost the special election for the 14th U.S. House District to fulfill former Speaker Dennis Hastert's term, but not all of the blame sh...