Editorials
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Endorsement: Daily Herald rejects Link, backs Lee in Illinois Senate District 30Oct 05, 2018 5:30 am - Voters in Illinois Senate District 30, which runs through central Lake County from Waukegan to Buffalo Grove, have a choice between Terry Link, the 21-year incumbent Dem...
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Endorsement: The Daily Herald recommends Bernas over Mussman for Illinois House District 56Oct 05, 2018 5:30 am - If voters in state House District 56 think their ballot choices look familiar, they're right. This race is a rematch between Democratic incumbent Michelle Mussman and Re...
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Endorsement: The Daily Herald recommends Ugaste over Johnson for Illinois House District 65Oct 05, 2018 5:30 am - Voters in Illinois House District 65 have a choice between fiscal conservative Dan Ugaste of Geneva and teachers union chief Richard Johnson of Elgin, and while the spec...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Oct 04, 2018 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 3 The Baltimore Sun on President Donald Trump's remarks on a psychology professor who has accus...
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Editorial: Drastic or not, we must work to reduce global warmingOct 03, 2018 11:00 pm - Buried under the debris of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing and our nail-biting over whether the Cubs would win their division last week was a Washington Post st...
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Editorial: The case for township road districts' demiseOct 02, 2018 11:00 pm - A Wheeling Township experiment recently caught our eye. The township eliminated the elected position of highway commissioner and in the first year dropped its tax collec...
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Editorial: Inspiring suburban kids an antidote to our trying timesOct 02, 2018 1:00 am - A once-beloved sitcom star headed to prison in handcuffs last Tuesday to serve time for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. A Supreme Court nominee and a college ...
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Editorial: Join the Facts Matter community conversationSep 29, 2018 2:00 pm - Last week, we began a five-part series of Facts Matter discussions in collaboration with Northwest Suburban High School District 214's Community Education program. The f...
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Daily Herald editors offer brief thoughts on suburban topics in the news.Sep 29, 2018 1:00 am - What's the rush? With the recent death of a construction worker on the tollway near Rosemont, work-zone speed limits again were a hot topic. It should not take a tr...
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Editorial: Practical, immediate steps for countering Springfield's harassment cultureSep 26, 2018 11:00 pm - A three-woman state committee issued recommendations this week on ways to combat harassment and gender equity in Springfield and, guess what they're calling for, among o...