Editorials
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Bad timing on urgent need for hospitalsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Emergency rooms got about four visits for every 10 people in the United States in 2005, by the federal government's count. Some people -- poor of health, accident prone ...
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Board must inject reality into negotiationsApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Two stories on the front page last week could not have shown more starkly the vast and growing gulf between the public and private work forces in this country. At the to...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: Quick thinkingApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Gas prices are up, housing values are down and the overall economy is just plain bad. Most everyone is looking to May when the federal government's much-touted economic ...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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Saturday Soapbox: Thanks for thinking of themApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the lesser publicized aspects of John and Rita Canning's generous donation to Northwest Community Hospital is worth a closer look. Part of their $1 million contri...
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Government should cut taxes on gasApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Prices for commodities are on the rise, with oil prices far in the lead, but also food prices are moving upward as well. No big surprise; everything is made, moved or ma...
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Saturday Soapbox: Old pols never leaveApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When longtime Kane County Board member Jan Carlson of Elburn stepped down early, resigning from the board this week after being defeated in the Republican primary, he le...
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An invitation to our students to write on!Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - It should come as a surprise to no one that we hold the ability to write, and write well, in high regard. Sure, we have our share of attempts at fine writing that fail, ...
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Use altercation as a bridge to dialogueApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - It's difficult, in many ways, to know what to make of the verbal altercation Carpentersville Trustee Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski had over the weekend with her neighbors. One...