Editorials
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Editorial: A 'loud statement' on dangers of hazing, excessive drinkingDec 10, 2018 10:00 pm - The $14 million legal settlement awarded to the family of a Palatine teen who died after an alcohol-fueled hazing at a Northern Illinois University fraternity was meant ...
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Editorial: A pledge of continued community serviceDec 08, 2018 12:00 pm - Every day the sun comes up, and when it does, it brings renewed purpose and new opportunity. Every day. That's the magic of life, the magic also of any enterprise. It's ...
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Editorial: Put consumers first when revisiting regulation of car sharingDec 05, 2018 10:00 pm - It's nice when legislative outcomes favor not the lobbyists but the little guy trying to get by. It doesn't happen often enough. Case in point: Efforts by the car rental...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Dec 05, 2018 6:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 4 Houston Chronicle on President George H.W. Bush: In June 1948, after the College World Series...
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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...