Wheeling Opinion
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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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Ultimately, public must clean up messApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Once again we hear about our friend Todd Stroger, Cook County Board president, who just gave his cousin a 12 percent raise. His cousin's battle cry before the election ...
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Saturday Soapbox: End of an era at CLCApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Richard Fonte era at College of Lake County is over, and not a moment too soon. Fonte was hired as the college president in December 2006, but lasted only six months...
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Saturday Soapbox: 75 percent of life ust showing upApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Whoever said that might have had Todd Stroger in mind. At Palatine's request, the Cook County Board president has agreed to come to Harper College on April 30 to defend ...
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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...
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Kirk's compassion misses the markApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - For the reader who wrote in praising Mark Kirk for being so compassionate, I have a few questions: Where was Kirk's compassion when he voted to oppose benchmarks that wo...
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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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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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Give Obama credit for church loyaltyMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - I am a ELCA Lutheran pastor and must take issue with Hillary Clinton's recent comment that we can "choose our pastor." In the ELCA, it is the congregation who chooses t...
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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. ...