Editorials
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Tri-Cities soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - A learning experience Kevin Burns will keep his day job and his political job. And the Geneva mayor will still have plenty of time for his family. In the end, that shoul...
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Lake Co. soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Welcome Jody Ware, an educator from northwest Illinois, was named Mundelein High School's new superintendent this week. She'll start in July 2008, at a time when adminis...
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Right way to check teacher backgroundsDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - We've heard Missourians refer to their state as a "40-something state," meaning that, in various key indicators, it ranks 40 or higher compared to other states in the na...
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Cook Co. soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Bartlett voters, start your engines … If Bartlett voters in the 14th Congressional District don't think it's weird enough that they'll be voting twice for the same offic...
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Fox Valley soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - A long road Once an art teacher in his small Mexican village, Juan Hernandez immigrated to the U.S. 17 years ago. He took two jobs, yet always had a return to teaching i...
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DuPage Co. soap boxDec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Never easy to start over There's a lesson in the Rev. Jim McLain's story about how he and his wife rebuilt their lives since Hurricane Katrina destroyed their church and...
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Let Gore uncover Venus' warmingDec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - As explained in the Daily Herald, it seems that Venus and Earth were virtual twins at one time many years ago. Over time as Venus went through changes, its oceans disapp...
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Steroid scandal puts a blemish on baseballDec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - We long ago disabused ourselves of the notion that professional athletes as a whole would put high honor in a cardinal rule of competition -- don't cheat. In baseball, i...
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Local research efforts paying dividendsDec 12, 2007 10:00 pm - It is so small, not visible to the naked eye. Yet it presents us with one of the biggest public health challenges in years. It's called methicillin-resistant staphylococ...
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Questions on gambling expansion planDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - The latest gambling expansion plan comes from Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a man who at least understands the General Assembly has some responsibility to addr...