Wood Dale 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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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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Fighting the copy-cat syndrome in the age of instant messagingMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Bomb threats. Suicides. Gang names. Things we often, as a matter of course, don't write about. The reasons are all intertwined. Someone who gets his jollies causing a ru...
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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: Standing up for what she believesMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - You can argue all you want about whether Linda Kane, the Central Times newspaper adviser at Naperville Central High School, overstepped her bounds by allowing student jo...
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Red light cameras are easy to live withMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - I have difficulty understanding the opinion of the St. Charles resident that tried to put together his reasons against red light cameras. To answer his demand for stats ...
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State shouldn't be in stadium businessMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - We have one governor (Blagojevich) who wants to sell everything (lottery, tollway, Thompson Center and tollway building). We have an ex- governor (Thompson) who wants to...
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Banning outdoor smoking is ludicrousMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - I read the article about Westfield Old Orchard's plan to implement a ban on smoking in outdoor areas. OUTDOOR AREAS? Are they kidding? Isn't this a place where soccer mo...
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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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Bridging the generation gap with Pat BooneMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - How do you like the new mug shot of me? Hard to believe it's five years ago to the month that I started writing this column. Hard to believe, too, how my hair has gotten...