Editorials
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Editorial: The prospect for partisanship in local TV newsApr 01, 2018 11:00 pm - The nature of WGN-TV's motto as "Chicago's Very Own" television station may be changing soon, and the prospect has implications for more than just one of Chicago's top b...
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Editorial: Celebrating our seasons of hope and renewalMar 31, 2018 2:00 pm - We're old school, most of us anyway, products of an era when baseball's claim to be America's pastime was undisputed. We remember the long-ago nights desperately bridgin...
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Editorial: Return sales tax-collection overage to local agenciesMar 28, 2018 11:00 pm - Eight months ago, the new Illinois budget empowered the state to begin taking 2 percent off the top of the sales taxes it processes and returns to each community and gov...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Mar 28, 2018 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 25 The Washington Post on rising interest rates: The Federal Reserve announced an increase in ...
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Editorial: This time, we can hold lawmakers accountable on 'fair maps'Mar 27, 2018 11:00 pm - For at least the past five years, Illinois lawmakers have had the best of all political worlds when it comes to redistricting reform. They've been able to avow support f...
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Editorial: Polling places at schools can be lesson in civicsMar 26, 2018 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald Editorial Board A common refrain after Saturday's marches across the country by students was that they must do their part and vote when they are eligibl...
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Editorial: Time for more towns to join Tobacco 21 movementMar 25, 2018 11:00 pm - Gurnee's decision to become the 18th community in Illinois to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products comes with an important question - why aren't more towns part...
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Editorial: Elgin opts for transparency in I-90 police shootingMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - Of all the images that made the news Thursday with the release of an Elgin police video documenting the fatal shooting of Decynthia Clements, the one that strikes us har...
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Kindness in Mundelein, a Glendale Heights getaway, a try for the Triangle in Mount Prospect and more.Mar 23, 2018 11:00 pm - Is peace at hand? President Donald Trump's chief national security adviser is an avowed war hawk who still calls the costly, based-on-a-mistake war in Iraq a good ...
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Editorial: Is hoarding reserves violating spirit of tax cap law?Mar 22, 2018 11:00 pm - Back in 1991, in response to runaway property taxes, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties were subjected to a new law that created hurdles to continued growth i...