Editorials
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Soapbox: Good compromiseOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Developers of Wanish Park near Gurnee at first wanted to pay no impact fees because ownership of the new townhouses and condominiums will be limited to buyers 50 or olde...
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Soapbox: Path needs another funding sourceOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Warrenville could walk away with something extra as part of the long-awaited thorium cleanup of the DuPage River. City representatives say they would like to see a netwo...
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Soapbox: Seeing redOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Bravo, Elk Grove Village. If only every intersection in the state could have cameras to catch reckless drivers speeding right through a red light, in a hurry for an earl...
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Soapbox: Words hardly sufficeOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Adequate words truly fail in expressing condolences to longtime political fixture Jim Ryan and his wife, Marie, on the death by apparent suicide of their son Patrick. Te...
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Are standardized tests doing the job?Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The assumed value of standardized school tests is that they gauge how well students perform at each grade level, how well students perform at each school and how well ea...
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Immediacy's vital in reporting crimeOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The work of a police department goes beyond arresting criminals and ticketing traffic law violators, as important as both duties are in their own right in keeping the pu...
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Tax dollars go, not enough come backOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - If the people of Illinois had to live off the return on their investment of tax dollars in Washington, we would all be in the poorhouse. For a long time, Illinois has b...
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Long standoff better than open warfareOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - If Americans know nothing else about Korea, most know North and South have been engaged in a tense stalemate along the 38th parallel since a 1953 cease-fire halted shoot...
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Organizers must learn from race chaosOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - A few elite runners basically shrugged off rare October heat that turned Chicago's marathon course into a broiler Sunday morning. For the front-runners, the scorching su...
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Young journalists point to hopeful futureOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - In terms of business success, these are rugged days for newspapers. Any cursory look into business digests, stock tables or advertising-revenue trends will tell you that...