Editorials
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It's time to elevate Senate rhetoricAug 10, 2010 11:00 pm - When are the two major-party Senate candidates going to realize that they are in a race for the United States Senate? Congress' upper chamber may have more than its shar...
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Get tougher on leaving-the-sceneAug 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The Chicago suburbs have witnessed two high-profile cases this summer involving drivers leaving the scene of an accident, and the disposition of those cases fails to mak...
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Add healthful eating on back-to-school checklistAug 08, 2010 11:00 pm - A new school year is about to start. New clothes? Check. Supplies? Check. Class schedule and bus routes plotted? Check. Healthy lunches and snacks bought? Hmmm. Not on t...
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A tax reform that's unfair to seniorsAug 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Some laws are well thought out and fairly address an issue facing taxpayers; others seem to make things worse. Legislation that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law last week ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Was that California or Illinois, Paula?Aug 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Comedian Paula Poundstone talked about California's financial straits on Craig Ferguson's late show this week, but it might as well have been Illinois. She joked about s...
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Troubling questions in Hobbs caseAug 05, 2010 11:00 pm - This is what we know today in the case of Jerry Hobbs: His daughter, Laura, and her friend, Krystal Tobias, just 8 and 9 respectively, were brutally murdered in Zion on ...
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A U-46 inequity remains an inequityAug 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has been on a tear lately, vetoing legislation and rewriting it to suit his purposes. That typically is a governor's prerogative. Sometimes the...
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Let's find the will to fix public pools threat nowAug 03, 2010 11:00 pm - It is not a matter of economics that has prevented nearly 90 percent of public swimming pools around Illinois and the suburbs from complying with a December 2008 deadlin...
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Recommit to serving troubled teensAug 02, 2010 11:00 pm - It's been nearly a year since a 16-year-old boy took his own life inside a state youth prison in St. Charles. Nearly a year to look at what went wrong. Nearly a year for...
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Suburbs stage another first-class eventAug 01, 2010 11:00 pm - If the Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove proved anything last weekend, it's that the bicycle race is fast becoming one of the jewels of suburban events. In only its fif...