Editorials
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Nov 01, 2017 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 28 The Orange County Register on the GOP's relationship with fiscal responsibility: Republicans...
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Editorial: Disappointing test scores emphasize need to improve schoolsOct 31, 2017 11:00 pm - The annual Illinois school report cards are out, and they don't bring very good news. Either today's students are underachieving or today's standardized tests are not up...
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Editorial: Moving beyond awareness of opioid crisisOct 31, 2017 11:00 pm - "We want the community to know - If you are in need of help, just ask." So said Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran in a Daily Herald report by staff writer Lee Filas showin...
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Editorial: The pride, passion of our best school teachersOct 25, 2017 11:00 pm - Of the 127,000 or so teachers in Illinois schools, likely between 2,000 and 3,000 started this school year as their last. We talked to a few of them about what their car...
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
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Editorial: A good partnership for a new parkOct 24, 2017 11:00 pm - Illinois often gets a bad rap for its many overlapping layers of government, but our local governments less frequently get credit for joining together to do something ri...
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Editorial: Arlington police make a statement on distracted drivingOct 24, 2017 11:00 pm - Police departments are sometimes accused of being more interested in collecting fines than promoting safety. Speed traps come to mind. So do holiday roadblocks. It may n...
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Editorial: Video recording board meetings a success in itselfOct 22, 2017 11:00 pm - Village leaders in Schaumburg are trying to decide what criteria will best determine whether a proposed trial period for video recording their meetings is successful. Ac...
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Editorial: Mayor Craig Johnson's proposed cigarette sales ban merits studyOct 21, 2017 2:00 pm - Some of us have been around long enough to remember when suburbs like Evanston, Oak Park and Wheaton were dry. Did it stop people from drinking? Well, to be sure, it did...
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Editorial: How would camera disrupt decorum of DuPage courtroom?Oct 18, 2017 11:00 pm - It has been five years since DuPage County first allowed photographers into their courtrooms. And even though there have been no problems to speak of, that hasn't stoppe...