Editorials
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Cut spending before increasing taxesFeb 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Pat Quinn isn't going to get any kind of honeymoon period typically afforded a newly installed chief executive. And that's OK. As John Patterson and Nicole Milstead's st...
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Warren High School raises out of lineFeb 01, 2009 10:00 pm - From time to time someone in the public eye utters a phrase that just makes an editorial writer's job too easy. Such is the case with Warren Township High School board P...
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The good news about our great teensJan 31, 2009 10:00 pm - Suburban residents often tell us we need more good, positive news in our publications. Truly, by its nature, it's often the bad, criminal or out-of-the ordinary that mak...
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Saturday SoapboxJan 30, 2009 10:00 pm - A glimmer of hope: We ended the week with a report that joblessness in Illinois climbed to 7 percent in December. We began the week with announcements that thousands mor...
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Gov. Quinn's chance to make a markJan 29, 2009 10:00 pm - What to say, now that it's all over? Do we say it is a sad day, a reflection that Illinois' long history of corruption has yet another sorry chapter added? Or do we rais...
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Let's have a clean fight, candidatesJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Even before that last weathered McCain sign is gone from the landscape and just as sure as daffodils bloom in the spring, you'll soon see a fresh crop of campaign signs....
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What Washington can't do - nothingJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - The debate in Washington this week - and likely for the next several to come - isn't just over whether some vague faceless megacorporations should be "bailed out." It's ...
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Time to end the state's 'nightmare'Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Instead of comparing himself to Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr., Rod Blagojevich should be trying to emulate Richard Nixon. When it was clear hi...
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Follow safety rules when snowmobilingJan 25, 2009 10:00 pm - This is the time of year when the temptation to ride a motorized sled across a frozen surface becomes too great to fight. Snowmobilers see days and weeks of temperature...
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Obama sets example on sunshine lawsJan 24, 2009 10:00 pm - On the heels of an administration that looked for reasons to refuse Freedom of Information Act requests, President Barack Obama started his first full day in office with...