Editorials
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Community college a valuable resourceSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - History has told us that as the economy sours, more and more people turn to their neighborhood community college to regroup, retrain and look for new careers. And that h...
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Walsh’s act part of the problem in D.C.Sep 13, 2011 5:00 am - We are all for increased face-to-face contact between our local congressmen and the public. We’re a fan of the so-called town hall meetings where average taxpaying citiz...
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Essay: Reliving instead of remembering Sept. 11Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — The planes will crash. You'll hear police sirens, the voices of those who lived and many who didn't. You'll feel like you're in the buildings. And then they'l...
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Essay: 9/11 brought us together, but was it unity?Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — We were one. Or so it seemed — for a while, at least. “America is united,” President George W. Bush proclaimed a decade ago after the horror that terrorists...
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Lost on Sept. 11: A generation without dragonsSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - Looking back on that morning that began so blue and beautiful a decade ago, we're somehow reminded now of children's poetry. A century before, English poet Francis Thomp...
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A new way to remember Sept. 11Sep 11, 2011 5:00 am - Ten years ago Sunday, I lost my mother, Norma Lang Steuerle, when American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon. Much has changed in the world and in my life o...
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Essay: New York’s 9/11, and not letting goSep 11, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Great cities are like the sea. They swallow their dead. New York has absorbed many horrors through its history, but most traces of them have long since been a...
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Still hope for a truly new normalSep 11, 2011 12:00 am - And so we have remembered. In Arlington Heights, we stood with The Children of Abraham Coalition under baby blue skies and spoke of tolerance and understanding. In Elgin...
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The SoapboxSep 10, 2011 5:00 am - Solemn weekend: We don’t fully understand the magic of some numbers, but this 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorism surely carries a solemnity not evident in previous a...
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Keep the dialogue alive for our youthSep 09, 2011 5:00 am - Every generation has its “where were you when” moments. For boomers, it’s JFK’s assassination, or maybe man’s first step on the moon. For those younger, it may be the Ch...