Editorials
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This isn't the red tape we want to cutMay 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Advocates don't pause when asked what Red Tape Cutters means in a state beset with budget woes, layoffs, and the grim reality of a growing number of foreclosures. They s...
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It's time for reason, not scare tacticsMay 19, 2009 11:00 pm - There is an eerie sameness to the tone of the so-called "doomsday budget" Gov. Patrick Quinn announced this week. It hearkens uncomfortably to memories of the way the pr...
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A new game of survival for car dealersMay 18, 2009 11:00 pm - John Reichert's Chevrolet Buick dealership has a team in Crystal Lake's Babe Ruth Baseball League. Bill Kay Auto Group is a sponsor for Benet Academy's annual golf outin...
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Keeping credit in check for studentsMay 17, 2009 11:00 pm - It's graduation season for high school seniors. Soon many of them will be heading off to college, armed with new laptops, new books, a new place to live and, for an incr...
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Time to stop trying to mandate slotsMay 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Allow us to provide a bit of apparently needed history for the Illinois General Assembly and, in particular, for state Sen. Terry Link of Waukegan: In 1927, when Arling...
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Saturday SoapboxMay 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Anti-corruption call alert: We're running a series of editorials calling to change Illinois' corrupt ways. If you are fed up, have you called your lawmakers? They need t...
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Good ideas, limits help democracyMay 14, 2009 11:00 pm - For as long as we can recall, here is how it's done in Springfield: If you're a legislator with a proposal for something the House speaker or the Senate president doesn'...
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Bravo to those who make their own funMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Remember the old days when, with something as simple as a piece of chalk and an old bedsheet, you could invent any number of games and activities to keep you busy during...
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Polls will be place for tax statementMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Todd Stroger. Protector of the poor. Defender of the downtrodden. Believe that and we've got about 1,000 square miles of political swampland in northeastern Illinois to ...
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Community colleges step up for workersMay 11, 2009 11:00 pm - For all the tough times this recession has brought, few have been hit harder than the thousands of suburban workers whose jobs have been eliminated. The livelihood that ...