Editorials
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Editorial: Fatal bike accident is a summer warning to allJun 05, 2012 3:58 pm - There’s no snow and cold to slow us down these days, and kids are out of school. The coming weeks will be a whirlwind of trips to the pool and to the ice cream shop and ...
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Editorial: Finish the unfinished pension problemJun 04, 2012 5:00 am - What’s done is done. And what was not done is not done. It must be done soon. We speak, of course, of the Illinois Legislature’s failure to fix the state’s suffocating ...
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Editorial: Unlike Wisconsin, let’s choose to work togetherJun 03, 2012 5:00 am - There are certain ironies in this week’s recall election in Wisconsin for those of us viewing from a short distance away here in Illinois. For example, our governor, lif...
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The SoapboxJun 02, 2012 4:46 pm - Clear enough? It ought to be at least a little embarrassing that nearly every interaction between the village of Glen Ellyn and the College of DuPage needs to be vetted ...
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Police costs worthy of fresh look, tooJun 01, 2012 5:00 am - Whatever else you might say about the recent recession and prolonged recovery, it certainly has taught us in the suburbs to see many things in a new light. Sacred cows a...
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Stay safe on suburban waterwaysMay 31, 2012 5:00 am - Last Saturday night, a Crystal Lake man was charged with operating a boat under the influence after he drove his craft over the bow of a pontoon boat, throwing a woman f...
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Domestic protections should include everyoneMay 29, 2012 6:22 pm - One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each yea...
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Editorial: Finding space for the disabled in ‘right’ part of townMay 29, 2012 9:41 am - Wheeling village Trustee Dean Argiris had a succinct summation last week for the reason the village board rejected a home for mentally disabled residents this week. “Thi...
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Our ambitious goal to chronicle the suburbs in showbizMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - A year ago, Dann Gire and Jamie Sotonoff set off on an ambitious mission. It was their goal to chronicle someone from the suburbs each week who had made something of him...
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Editorial: Put the skids on massive gambling expansionMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Illinois faces budget problems the likes of which we’ve never seen. We have the worst pension funding gap in the nation, a multibillion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills an...