Editorials
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Soapbox: Impressive response; happy endingOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Nine police officers, a helicopter unit and several other Lake Zurich municipal employees searched high and low Wednesday for a 6-year-old boy reported missing from him ...
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Soapbox: A nice traditionOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Geneva Park District hit a home run by dedicating ballfields after former park district commissioners and former landowners. Sam Hill, John Burns Sr. and George and ...
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Soapbox: Just keep this in mindOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - We understand why students were offended by author Sherman Alexie's use of a racial slur, sexual innuendo and language that offended disabled students and their teachers...
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Soapbox: Tough (and caring) guys wear pinkOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a fact that has taken on poignant meaning at Fremd High School, where football players Matt, Drew and Adam Mertes rece...
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Illinois must stop lapse spendingOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - In mid-summer, as the governor and lawmakers squabbled about Illinois' budget priorities, something more significant, budget-wise, happened behind the scenes. The Depart...
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Pick up the pace for building bypassOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Three years to study a project that already has been on the books for what seems like decades? That's what state highway planners are now proposing in regard to actually...
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Constructing a positive jobs outlookOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Here's another good reason why Illinois should be eager to launch a capital construction program: It would put a lot of people to work at a time when unemployment is on ...
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Capital construction bill a place to startOct 02, 2007 11:00 pm - We can say unquestionably that the $13 billion "capital construction" bill that emerged from the Illinois Senate is, in fact, an improvement over the gridlock that has b...
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For Chicago teams, fans -- it's never easyOct 01, 2007 11:00 pm - What possible burdens could professional athletes face? They're paid gazillions to play games of youth. Many receive buckets of cash for telling the rest of us what kind...
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Counties' cooperation a good exampleSep 30, 2007 11:00 pm - We spend a lot of time criticizing politicians who won't sit down and work out compromises or, at the very least, listen to each other. This year's stalemate with the go...