Editorials
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Editorial: Seavy Drainage District dissolution a small step toward efficiencyJun 06, 2018 5:00 pm - Ever hear of the Seavey Ditch? Probably not, unless you've lived in Lake County for a while. It is a remnant of the county's rural past, created by farmers more than a c...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Jun 06, 2018 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 5 The Wall Street Journal on getting Americans back in the labor force: The low U.S. labor forc...
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Editorial: Parkland students should be welcome in NapervilleJun 05, 2018 11:00 pm - Why Naperville? That's a question, or variation of the question, that some people were asking on our story this week about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School stude...
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Editorial: Robert Kennedy and his gift of hopeJun 03, 2018 11:00 pm - "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each o...
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Editorial: Trump, Blagojevich and the presidential pardonJun 02, 2018 2:00 pm - We have long had our reservations about the unbridled pardon power the Constitution grants to the president. In fact, we argued that the sweeping 140 pardons (along with...
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Soapbox: Work with meaning in Fremont Township, Naperville's moving up, hard-won success in Arlington Heights and more.Jun 02, 2018 1:00 am - Are you ready? Well, that photo of a car afloat in Schaumburg during Wednesday's rain caught our attention. Time to brush up on storm prep, check the sump pump, sta...
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Editorial: Young people show us the world isn't all bad newsMay 31, 2018 11:00 pm - Another school shooting. An on-again-off-again first summit with North Korea. A constantly fishtailing stock market. Arguments in the capitols of the nation and the stat...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
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Editorial: Program shows individuals can have an impact against school violenceMay 29, 2018 11:00 pm - In an era when the tendency is to emotionally demand sweeping solutions to complex problems, it is encouraging to consider the work of Karen and Robert Fitzgerald and th...
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Editorial: Rooting for Mundelein's bold plan to share superintendentMay 29, 2018 1:00 am - Decades ago, schools in Mundelein investigated consolidating, and they have revisited the idea several times since then. But the concept always has been stalled by conc...