Editorials
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Editorial: Lake Zurich bans teen tobacco sales and state should tooDec 04, 2018 10:00 pm - Lake Zurich this week joined the growing list of suburbs that have raised the age to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21. It's a wise move to prevent te...
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Editorial: County boards can rise above ideological party divisionsDec 03, 2018 11:01 pm - Perhaps it is naive to wish that the board vote installing Sandy Hart as Lake County's new board president hadn't been so overwhelmingly partisan, but it is encouraging ...
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Editorial: Family, service lead list of accomplishments in Bush's successful lifeDec 03, 2018 10:00 pm - President Donald Trump declared today a national day of mourning for former President George H.W. Bush. The nature of our sadness is reflected in an experience from the ...
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Editorial: David Orr and ballot access reformDec 01, 2018 1:00 pm - Former Cook County Clerk David Orr, who retired Friday after 28 years in office, did a pretty good job recently of describing the perennial candidate petition challenges...
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The Soapbox: Daily Herald editors offer brief thoughts on suburban topics in the newsDec 01, 2018 12:00 am - Red by default If you don't see green, assume it's red. That rule for stoplights that aren't operating also applies to stoplights that are caked with sno...
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Editorial: Kifowit's nasty rhetoric was both offensive and counterproductiveNov 29, 2018 10:00 pm - "I would like to make him a broth of Legionella and pump it into the water system of his loved ones so that they can be infected, they can be mistreated, they can sit an...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Nov 28, 2018 6:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Nov. 26 The Washington Post on a new federal climate change report: If you did not hear about the ma...
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Editorial: Take pride in local talent as Hollywood awards season kicks offNov 27, 2018 10:00 pm - For many movie lovers, the holiday season is indeed the most wonderful time of the year. That's because effects-stuffed summer blockbusters and Halloween horror flicks f...
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Fix road funding with eye toward state's futureNov 27, 2018 10:00 pm - "We have to fund these roads somehow." That's state Rep. Tom Morrison talking about his idea to charge owners of electric cars more because they're not paying motor fuel...
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Editorial: Local schools get burden when society won't deal with gun problemNov 25, 2018 10:00 pm - The specter of a callous gunman has figured much over the past week and half in the minds of people responsible for keeping kids safe at school. And both the need for an...