Editorials
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Soapbox: Big Pay, No Work IINov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - It's bad enough a spineless Elgin Area School District U-46 school board obligated Elgin taxpayers to bankroll Connie Neale's lavish retirement in Missouri. But this wee...
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Recall authority is not the solutionNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - The Chicago Tribune opinion page recently asked readers whether Illinoisans should have the ability to unseat current Gov. Rod Blagojevich before his term is up. Trib ed...
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Soapbox: 'The marching band refused to yield'Nov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Mr. Schraft was not famous. Yet he was a paean to music, education and his profession. He was revered by hundreds of budding musicians, colleagues and his community. Mr....
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Soapbox: We need to listenNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's a salute to the League of Women's Voters/Palatine Area for its Veterans Day luncheon last week in Schaumburg. It was there that the League honored women in the mi...
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Soapbox: Still doesn't get itNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Isn't it a sad thing that when an Illinois politician is sent off to serve his prison sentence, as former Gov. George Ryan was this week, there's a ready supply of ex-co...
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Help is a must for homeless veteransNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Homelessness is an ugly stain that stubbornly resists removal from the American landscape. Each case of homelessness is a human tragedy, and somehow the misfortune seems...
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Just another governor gone to jailNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - George Ryan used to be governor of one of the greatest states in the nation. Now he's just another of 45,400 people from Illinois locked up as common criminals. And he's...
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18-year-olds entitled to run for officeNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Leave it to Illinois school boards, already facing a plethora of serious problems, to see one where it doesn't exist. And worse, to squash the democratic process in the ...
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Assure humane transport of horsesNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - You don't necessarily have to love horses to be appalled by descriptions of the suffering and chaos that greeted rescuers when they arrived at the scene of an Oct. 27 tr...
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IHSA photo limits unfair to fans, mediaNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - Saturday was a championship day for teams from Geneva, Barrington and Naperville's Neuqua Valley high schools. And parents of the high school athletes who were looking f...