Editorials
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Saturday SoapboxSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Getting involved with the cure Volley for the Cure, a breast cancer awareness and fundraising initiative for home high school girls volleyball matches, has become a popu...
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Mass transit saves gas - and livesSep 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Hard as it is to believe, there is a real benefit to gasoline being more than $4 per gallon. As the cost of driving has gone up, the number of fatal crashes on our roads...
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More finance questions than answersSep 17, 2008 11:00 pm - One could surely be forgiven this week if he raised his hand and asked the government for clarification on its policy toward bailing out failing businesses. But one like...
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Reinforcing our resolve for flood controlSep 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Subdivisions covered with water. House-to-house evacuations by boat. Shelters full of displaced people on cots. Foolhardy challenges of nature's wrath, and incredible ac...
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Teachers' pay demands unreasonableSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It shouldn't have come to this. Huntley Unit District 158 teachers struck Monday for the first time after seven months of often arduous discussions - including 40 hours ...
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Keep driving age, restrictions in placeSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Ask any parent of a teenager, and they'll have stories to tell - both good and, more than likely. bad - about the driving skills of their child. The scary first time th...
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Coming to aid of college studentsSep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Having to borrow money is an economic fact of life for most of us. And for the most part borrowing has been good for both the consumer and the economy. But when money is...
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Saturday soapboxSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A dream or just a pipe dream? An idea's being floated in Des Plaines to construct a new city hall to go with a new public safety complex. But Aldermen's reluctance to a...
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Hug nothing more than playactingSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Remember the hug? That astonishing moment a few weeks back in Denver when Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. managed to get House Speaker Michael J. Madigan to embrace his ne...
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Take time to reflect on Sept. 11Sep 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Time gives way to complacency. As we hurtle headlong toward Election Day, we'll hear plenty about service to country. We'll hear plenty about the presidential candidate...