Editorials
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Soapbox: Nice touchSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - If you've been stuck lately, as many of us have, in traffic near Naperville-Wheaton and Warrenville roads, you've had plenty of time to study the "Thank you" signs poste...
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Soapbox: For children's sakeSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Earlier this week, police arrested a convicted sex offender in Glen Ellyn after he was accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl who lived in the same apa...
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Soapbox: Works and plays well with others?Sep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - A majority of Island Lake trustees voted Thursday for a resolution that they'll try to work together in a positive manner and to avoid personal attacks and rehashing set...
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Soapbox: Pay attentionSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Waubonsee Community College had input from professors when it designed its new Academic and Professional Center. The $13.2 million, 56,000-square-foot building -- which ...
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Soapbox: Outbound heavy on the AddamsSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Having one's name affixed to a Chicago-area tollway is a mixed honor; after all, on snarled-traffic days drivers may curse the honoree's name. And columnist Chuck Goudie...
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Soapbox: District 300 puts FOIA onlineSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Community Unit District 300 recently began offering Freedom of Information Act forms and documents on the district's Web site, www.d300.org. If you click on the "Freedom...
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Computers merit a larger roleSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - It's been more than a decade since policymakers and educators launched concerted efforts to bring technology to the classroom. But for the most part, use of computers at...
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A reluctant 'no' vote on RTA bailoutSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - There's no pleasure in recommending, as we do here, that the RTA board vote "no" today on a bailout offer from Gov. Rod Blagojevich to avoid a Chicago-area transit cris...
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Ways to keep kids from taking the heatSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Mid-August now means welcome back to school. And time for the four R's: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic -- and Roasting. Whoever thought it was a good idea to start the sch...
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Ways to keep kids from taking the heatSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Mid-August now means welcome back to school. And time for the four Rs. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic -- and Roasting. Whoever thought it was a good idea to start the scho...