Editorials
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St. Charles school board seeing the light?Sep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The St. Charles school board just may be ready to make the 1944 hit tune "I'm Beginning to See the Light" its official song. Maybe the 1962 Bobby Darin version should be...
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Cycling commuters have opened our eyesSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - For those who drive to work, it may not be surprising that the Chicago area clocks in some of the highest average travel times to work in the nation. In a 2005 ranking o...
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'Going green' can save public's green, tooSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been such focus on the environment and what could be done to protect it. Pollution control and energy conservation hav...
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It can be doneAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Some of the moves made by Mundelein High School District 120 to save money -- trimming programs, letting class sizes rise -- were difficult to make. But the payoff is th...
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Getting it right … againAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg's special events coordinator Roxane Benvenuti seems to have a knack for these things. While it might seem to some like a no-brainer to invite returning soldie...
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Get rid of the stripesAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - It's good to see the inmates working on the grounds of the Kane County jail, but their garb of broad gray stripes is reminiscent of the 1932 film "I Am a Fugitive from a...
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This contrast stingsAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - This contrast stings While the DuPage County Board wrings its hands over how to handle a budget catastrophe, the DuPage County Forest Preserve District is in the financi...
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Small price to avoid big problemAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Yes, $90,000 is a lot of money, as Aurora Ald. Rick Lawrence notes. But it pales in comparison with, say, a potential $9 million lawsuit, as Mayor Tom Weisner also notes...
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Age of enlightenment?Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs says he panicked after crashing his high, high-end car into a light pole at 3 in the morning and left the scene to "avoid a scene."...
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Governor's lawsuit pointless and pettyAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - You might think, looking back over the year he's had so far, that Gov. Rod Blagojevich would be hard-pressed to find even one more way to further diminish his leadership...