Editorials
-
Editorial: Taking on the special challenge of safety for rail 'trespassers'Sep 19, 2016 11:00 pm - Some of the statistics on railway crashes are stunning. As our transportation writer Marni Pyke reported Monday, such collisions at rail crossings have declined from 10,...
-
Editorial: What Mayor Rooney needs to remember in SpringfieldSep 17, 2016 2:00 pm - Tom Rooney's always been one of our favorite suburban mayors. Pleasant guy; wide-eyed; boyish enthusiasm; seems genuinely open to other opinions, not just his own; an en...
-
The Soapbox: Inspiration in Itasca, be heard in Mount Prospect, shocking numbers in Kane and more.Sep 17, 2016 1:00 am - The Daily Herald Editorial Board A losing battle: There was a recent disappointing, if not disturbing, report on police not being able to keep drivers from using th...
-
Editorial: Bathroom 'passports' showed problems of overreach in addressing issuesSep 15, 2016 1:00 am - School officials in St. Charles - and policymakers everywhere, for that matter - are getting an important lesson about making rules that apply to everyone based on the a...
-
Editorial: There are viable options to keep fair-elections drive aliveSep 14, 2016 11:00 pm - For any with faint hopes that the state Supreme Court would emerge from its partisan cocoon and agree to reconsider allowing Illinoisans a voice in how lawmakers are ele...
-
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ____ Sept. 13 The New York Times on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the poor: Poverty in the United St...
-
Editorial: Like adults, kids must focus, too, on back-to-school safetySep 13, 2016 1:00 am - The start of a new school year rightly brings the annual warnings aimed at adults who drive - look out for kids walking and riding bikes, watch for stopped school buses,...
-
Editorial: The safe haven alternative to baby abandonmentSep 12, 2016 11:00 pm - Last month, after a newborn baby was found dead on a secluded roadside near Wheaton, we extolled the virtues of Illinois' safe haven law. And we urged proponents of such...
-
Editorial: 15 years after September 11 attacksSep 10, 2016 2:00 pm - Fifteen years, the blink of an eye. As Daily Herald Staff Writer Melissa Silverberg describes today in her Page 1 report, September 11 is arms-length history to the gene...
-
The Soapbox: Balancing bus routes in Barrington, a drone fight in South Elgin, a museum in Wauconda and more.Sep 10, 2016 1:00 am - The Daily Herald Editorial Board Bus balance Is it a good trade-off to walk farther to a school bus stop in exchange for pickup being pushed five to eight minutes ...