Editorials
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Breaking barriers at the barber shopJan 09, 2012 4:00 am - Barber shops and hair salons. Those, along with coffee shops and neighborhood watering holes, are prime places to spend an hour or two to really learn what’s on other pe...
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Let’s all resolve to be engaged votersJan 08, 2012 4:00 am - With the new year comes the hope of a fresh start, an opportunity to change old habits. That often means resolutions that focus on personal improvement. Saving more, los...
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The SoapboxJan 07, 2012 4:00 am - Oh no, no snow? The older we get, the more some of us appreciate the lack of snow in winter. We know others enjoy it and that many people even rely upon it for their li...
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There’s a place for roadway solicitingJan 06, 2012 4:00 am - You’ve seen them as you drive to the grocery store, the hardware store or wherever you go, especially on sunny days when people are out. A firefighter lugging a giant ru...
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State lottery needs to go slow onlineJan 05, 2012 4:00 am - It’s more of the same in Springfield, as two stories by Daily Herald state government writer Mike Riopell Wednesday point out. First, Gov. Pat Quinn released a three-yea...
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Cut, yes, but cooperate and share painJan 04, 2012 4:00 am - One refrain of which we all must be tiring after, lo, these many years of this interminable economic downturn is this: “We need to make painful cuts.” We do. In many pla...
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Keeping bowl fever in perspectiveJan 03, 2012 4:00 am - Twice a year — in early January and again in late March — the nation turns its attention toward higher education with a joyous passion. The current attraction is the ons...
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The pension reform roar from Rhode IslandJan 01, 2012 10:00 pm - Could tiny Rhode Island serve as the proverbial mouse that roars? Will suburban Democrats, and all Illinois Democrats, hear that roar? Liberal Democrats in tiny Rhode Is...
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A distracted-driving resolution to frame near the doorJan 01, 2012 4:00 am - Today is a perfect day to declare a personal war on distracted driving. We’ve written in this space for the past week about the dangers inherent in distracted driving. T...
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The SoapboxDec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - Celebrate sensibly: It might be a timeworn bit of advice, but it remains an important one, simply told by the municipal sign outside the Schaumburg police/fire departmen...