Editorials
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Safeguards needed for government tablets useOct 11, 2011 5:00 am - It’s easy to be impressed with the iPad and other tablet computers. Sleek, portable, lightweight technology at your fingertips. What’s not to like? Just as they are embr...
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Ready for a ‘worst in Chicago’ winter?Oct 10, 2011 5:00 am - Remember when a blizzard meant an inconvenient commute and maybe a snow day for the kids? And a wind storm brought a little excitement and scattered damage, but the powe...
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The bankruptcy of fiscal leadership must endOct 09, 2011 5:00 pm - The Civic Federation of Chicago two weeks ago projected that Illinois still will have an $8.3 billion budget hole by next June. That, despite a personal income tax incre...
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Breast cancer hits close to homeOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - A West Chicago youth football team wearing pink socks; health organizations from Aurora, Barrington and Naperville preparing pink-themed videos. Those are just two of th...
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A visionary who touched our lives, changed worldOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - There’s nothing inherently local about the death of Steve Jobs. But his death at the young age of 56 reminds us not only of the fragility of life but of the ravages of a...
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Suburban link missing in charter schools panelOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - The charter school experiment has had mixed results in the Chicago suburbs. With a handful of exceptions — perhaps most notably in Pingree Grove and Grayslake — they hav...
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Focus on adjunct quality, not quantityOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - As a way to save costs, community colleges have increasingly hired adjunct instructors. Bargain that they are, part-timers also allow schools to easily fill gaps and exp...
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A liberation of identityOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - I’m sure that as the one-named author Toure worked on his just-released “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” he thought he was exploring only...
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Moving on from a public mistakeOct 04, 2011 9:00 am - State Sen. Suzi Schmidt used very poor judgment when she called 911 last Christmas Day to suggest dispatchers ignore her husband if he called. As a former Lake County Bo...
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District 214’s ‘Alive at 25’ worth tryingOct 03, 2011 9:00 am - Car crashes remain the leading cause of death among teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Teen deaths and serious injuries from crashes rem...