Editorials
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The state's search for budget realityMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Today, Gov. Pat Quinn unveils a delayed, anxiously awaited budget plan for the coming year. He has promised - threatened? - it will be a "reality budget," and apparently...
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Letting parents save school programsMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - School boards are taking it on the chin these days, with meeting after meeting in which irate parents and sincere students beg that their favorite academic or extracurri...
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Parents, students still need warningsMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - In most cases in this space we editorialize on a topic and move on. We urge the passage of a bill in Springfield or seek answers from a political candidate, for example....
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Joe Walsh and the debt he didn't payMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - If Congressional candidate Joe Walsh was so hard up for money that he couldn't fulfill his obligation on a $300,000 mortgage, why was he able to afford to rent an $860,0...
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Saturday soapbox: Maybe they'll rent out roomsMar 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Maybe they'll rent out rooms: Pigeon coops in Aurora now have to meet building codes? Seems like a frivolous application of city powers at a time when plenty of ...
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Boosting the passage rate to adulthoodMar 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Spring break is just around the corner. That traditional time where young adults let loose can be a time of some trepidation for their parents. And so it was with more t...
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Voters can still have say in lt. gov. pickMar 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Many of you have told us you feel disenfranchised by the whole Scott Lee Cohen episode. Maybe the pawnbroker accused of domestic abuse and steroid use wasn't the best c...
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A note of finality to Brown's tragedyMar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - It's not our place to question how a privately funded reward in the Brown's Chicken murder case is disbursed, but we will say this: The release of the money is a welcome...
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A loud, bizarre silence in Island LakeMar 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Here's a bizarre case of stone-cold silence that could happen almost no where in the suburbs but Island Lake, a community buffeted by odd government scandal in recent ye...
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Voters, this is your chance to fight corruptionFeb 28, 2010 10:00 pm - Illinois residents must take advantage of a rare opportunity to remove power from politicians who have allowed Illinois to become too corrupt for too long. Good governme...