Editorials
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Keep an open mind on school mergersJul 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Certainly children need to go to school. But the question is, do they need so many schools? Illinois has 870 public school districts, the second highest number in the co...
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Saturday SoapboxJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Campaign financing questioned: Democratic candidates for the DuPage County Board this week took their Republican counterparts to task for accepting campaign contribution...
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Saturday Soapbox: Lake CountyJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Keep your shirt on Girls Gone Wild, the soft-porn video group, arrives today at Blarney's Island on the Chain O' Lakes as part of its "Hottest Bars in America" search. I...
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Tour of Elk Grove becomes an eventJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - It's a great event for the suburbs, and we encourage the public to turn out. For some reason, most of us tend to criticize rather than praise, complain about a problem r...
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Give cameras a trial in the courtroomsJul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - There are those in the legal profession who continue to believe that allowing trials to be televised in Illinois would be courting disaster. Lawyers would play to the ca...
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Let's elevate the presidential debateJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - There haven't been too many shining moments lately in the presidential race. And the journalists covering it must be daydreaming about how they'd rather be spending thei...
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Kid's game shouldn't lead to life of painJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - There used to be a time when youngsters played sports when they wanted to, just to have fun, not when they had to, to remain competitive in their specialty youth sport. ...
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Illinois must help problem gamblersJul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The state of Illinois has long been happy to turn to legalized gambling to help deal with its revenue shortfalls. Invariably, when the state budget is out of whack, legi...
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When being idle is a waste of energyJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyday, millions of vehicles sit idle, their engines running but going nowhere. In the past, we didn't care much about this. We surely weren't going to concern ourselv...
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Right choice on teen site, with caveatsJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - With some qualifications, we believe the Batavia Public Library Board made the correct decision last week in voting to keep a Planned Parenthood sponsored Web site link ...