Will County Opinion
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Illinois Municipal League fairytalesApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The recent "Chicken Little" article regarding police and fire pensions is just baloney. The Illinois Municipal League is claiming the sky is falling and screaming (not c...
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Plasma arcs could cure landfill problemApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - In the U.S., there are approximately 2,000 landfill sites. The country generates about 230 million tons of solid waste a year. Thanks to recycling and other efforts, onl...
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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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Don't abandon right way to battle drugsApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - You see it in the face of the anguished mother, weeping over a rifled jewelry box, knowing it was her son who robbed her again to buy his drugs. You see it in the emerge...
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Fire chief's sudden departureApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The sudden departure of John Wu as Naperville's fire chief raises all sorts of questions this week as to exactly what happened and why. Rumors, of course, are flying all...
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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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Saturday Soapbox: Fire chief's sudden departureApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The sudden departure of John Wu as Naperville's fire chief raises all sorts of questions this week as to exactly what happened and why. Rumors, of course, are flying all...
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Jack Bauer and Smokey the horse jump through hoopsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - My last column about dogs chronicled the gut-wrenching decision last fall to put to sleep our 13-year-old Boston terrier, Fudge. The upside of losing a dog, I guess, is ...
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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...