Editorials
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Soapbox: Big bucks for over-budget buildingOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - One would think that $48.7 million is plenty of money to construct College of DuPage's new Technology Education Center. But officials at the Glen Ellyn college have lear...
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Gore's prize should spur U.S. actionOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Tennessee has grand reason to be proud of Al Gore, a Tennessean whose relentless efforts to raise awareness about global warming have led to his being awarded the Nobel ...
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Required silence serves no purposeOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The General Assembly has had worse ideas -- this is, after all, Illinois. But seldom has it invited so much second-guessing and controversy over a move of so little demo...
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County officials must share budget painOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - In the end, it probably would have taken a fairy godmother to bail DuPage County out of its budget crisis. But maybe she was too busy with other things to waste time wav...
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Shield law's not a threat to our nationOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - It is regrettable that opponents of legislation aimed at protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources view the measure as a grave threat to our nation's securi...
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Timing key on Batavia downtown planOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - We expected a few sparks to fly when a public hearing was conducted Monday at Batavia city hall regarding the creation of a special service area tax for the downtown bus...
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Override adds dose of fairness to safetyOct 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Despite the governor's contention that a "do-over" on juvenile sex offender registration requirements "condones leniency toward sex offenders," the General Assembly's ov...
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Girl's story brings heartfelt responseOct 15, 2007 11:00 pm - A Daily Herald story wasted no time cutting to the chase last week when introducing readers to 7-year-old Taylor Radtke. "There is," the story reported, "no rest, no ti...
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'Silence' law is simply unnecessaryOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The General Assembly may not be able to figure out how to fund our schools, fix our roads or properly staff our prisons. But when it comes to forcing schoolchildren to s...
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Soapbox: Hallelujah!Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Finally, a government faced with a revenue problem that isn't making tax and fee hikes a first resort. Kane County department heads got word this week that they'll have...