Editorials
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Saturday Soapbox: Just in time for springApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Naperville residents have complained for years about unkempt vacant lots in developing neighborhoods. The city got around to what appears to be a resolution this week wi...
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Change to popular vote in right wayApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - With the scratch of his signature Monday, Gov. Rod Blagojevich added Illinois to two other states officially calling for presidential elections to be decided by popular ...
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Saturday Soapbox: Round Lake has a reason to celebrateApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Round Lake has set a mark every village in Lake County should try to match. A recent police-controlled sting operation checking liquor establishments to see if they were...
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We can demand changes we want madeApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Perhaps you didn't have time to stop and notice. A rare thing happened in Illinois just weeks after the shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Gov. ...
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End anxious wait for life-saving organApr 16, 2008 11:00 pm - When you are 13 years old, you should be waiting for the next great thing to happen. A fun get-together with friends or family. Praise from a teacher, or coach, for a jo...
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Boomers will bow weak medical systemsApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - As a surprise to no one, a new report by the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, says the prognosis for Medicare and future medical care f...
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Questions state police need to answerApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - When a gunman began his shooting spree in Northern Illinois University's Cole Hall, killing five people, he did so with guns that the state said he was authorized to own...
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Illinois should take lead in campus safetyApr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyone agrees colleges and universities need procedures in place to alert students and faculty to threats on campus. But, as Daily Herald projects and political writer...
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Find ways to rescue raptor programApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - DuPage County residents have a great love for the outdoors; the woods, wetlands and the animals that inhabit these environs. That has been registered in consistent vot...
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Now build bridge to a better downtownApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - As Batavia closed in on the inevitable -- that its downtown Wilson Street bridge would be under construction for several months -- there was an underlying feeling that ...