Editorials
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Sep 21, 2016 7:00 am - Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ____ Sept. 21 The Los Angeles Times on a recent Wells Fargo scandal: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass....
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Editorial: Averted disaster emphasizes role of 'see something, say something'Sep 20, 2016 11:00 pm - An unusual object reported at a Schaumburg Metra station. A backpack along the side of a road in Wheaton. Another backpack near a New Jersey train station. That one, f...
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Editorial: Online engagement produces open discussion of Safety Town controversySep 19, 2016 11:00 pm - Don't mess with Safety Town. That was the message received loud and clear in the last few days as officials in Naperville, once named one of the best places to raise a f...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...