Editorials
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Saturday Soapbox: Listen on Molly, EvanApr 09, 2010 11:00 pm - 'Work hard, follow your dream': No one can bring that message home better than people like local Olympians Evan Lysacek and Molly Schaus and, more recently, Glenb...
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The new Engelhardts teach us allApr 08, 2010 11:00 pm - It's still such a struggle every day. This horrible, lingering recession becomes such a drag on us. We're unemployed, or underemployed, or our loved ones are. We're stil...
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Severance package good deal for ElginApr 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Lisa Womack rode into Elgin from Texas less than five years ago to serve as its police chief. She'll be gone soon, having been given the option of being fired or let go ...
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Public should vote on Dist. 15 planApr 06, 2010 11:00 pm - It must first be acknowledged that proposals like that of Palatine Township Elementary District 15 to borrow $27 million - 37 percent of it for working cash - are what w...
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Island Lake stumbling on opennessApr 05, 2010 11:00 pm - It's no surprise there is more concern and discussion these days about transparency and openness at all levels of Illinois government. Sending one former governor to pri...
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Fill out your forms and get countedApr 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Have you been counted yet? If yes, congratulations. You've done your part in determining how $400 billion in federal funding is allocated for such things as hospitals, j...
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The Taste of Lombard finds a wayApr 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Last month, it looked like the Taste of Lombard, one of the suburbs' biggest Fourth of July festivals, was dead, another victim of recessionary cutbacks. The village boa...
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Saturday SoapboxApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Change in the weather: The harbingers of spring are all around. Swans are back in Schaumburg, along with the winter fish-kill cleanups at suburban ponds. Potholes...
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It's time Democrats push to vote on party limitsApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - State legislators are in the midst of enjoying a two-week spring break. Now may be a perfect time to call, write or stop them at the store to tell them to push more ethi...
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School reforms must be sustainableMar 31, 2010 11:00 pm - The Obama administration continues to dangle federal education dollars to cash-strapped states, and by choosing two winners in the first round of its Race to the Top com...