Editorials
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Editorial: Parents, think safety on car seats, medicationSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - Monday wasn't a good day if you are a parent of a small child. If you read that day's Daily Herald, you would have been prompted twice to improve your parental skills. T...
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Editorial: Elgin's collaborative approach to helping paroleesSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - Few situations may seem bleaker than a recent parolee trying to put his or her life back together. Their questions are many and the answers may be few - where to live, h...
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Editorial: Cubs, White Sox, MLB must extend nettingSep 23, 2017 2:00 pm - "I just wanted to cry for this little kid," baseball fan Tom Barton told The New York Times shortly after the girl was hit. "There was so much blood." The horrific scene...
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Editorial: It's time suburbs end their bans on ice cream trucksSep 20, 2017 11:00 pm - Ask a middle-school kid what worries him or her, and you'll probably get the same kind of answer you'd have given: remembering the locker combination, making enough frie...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 15 The Japan News on United Nations reform and the U.S. and Japan's contributions to its budge...
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Editorial: Take highway work-zone safety seriouslySep 19, 2017 11:00 pm - In early spring, the Illinois Department of Transportation and Illinois Tollway issued the standard yearly plea for motorists to be on their best behavior in constructio...
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Editorial: New hazing charges provide yet another reminder of need for culture of respectSep 18, 2017 11:00 pm - Sadly, the story is one that we have heard far too often. And while those accused in the Wheaton College hazing assault on two freshman football players are presumed inn...
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Editorial: Repeal of sweetened beverage tax is right thing to doSep 17, 2017 11:00 pm - President Toni Preckwinkle and the Cook County Board sidestepped an opportunity last week to repeal the unpopular new beverage tax, but opponents kept the issue alive by...
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Editorial: The flaws in the Electoral CollegeSep 16, 2017 2:00 pm - Hillary Clinton is back on the book tour circuit, and among the many headlines she created last week was one in which she called for the end of the Electoral College. Ou...
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Editorial: Farewell to elephants, kings of the circusSep 14, 2017 11:00 pm - It was in early November 2001 when the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus saw the perfect opportunity for a stunt in the suburbs. The circus was in Rosemont for its a...