Editorials
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Soapbox: We need to listenNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's a salute to the League of Women's Voters/Palatine Area for its Veterans Day luncheon last week in Schaumburg. It was there that the League honored women in the mi...
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Soapbox: Still doesn't get itNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Isn't it a sad thing that when an Illinois politician is sent off to serve his prison sentence, as former Gov. George Ryan was this week, there's a ready supply of ex-co...
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Help is a must for homeless veteransNov 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Homelessness is an ugly stain that stubbornly resists removal from the American landscape. Each case of homelessness is a human tragedy, and somehow the misfortune seems...
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Just another governor gone to jailNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - George Ryan used to be governor of one of the greatest states in the nation. Now he's just another of 45,400 people from Illinois locked up as common criminals. And he's...
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18-year-olds entitled to run for officeNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Leave it to Illinois school boards, already facing a plethora of serious problems, to see one where it doesn't exist. And worse, to squash the democratic process in the ...
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Assure humane transport of horsesNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - You don't necessarily have to love horses to be appalled by descriptions of the suffering and chaos that greeted rescuers when they arrived at the scene of an Oct. 27 tr...
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IHSA photo limits unfair to fans, mediaNov 04, 2007 10:00 pm - Saturday was a championship day for teams from Geneva, Barrington and Naperville's Neuqua Valley high schools. And parents of the high school athletes who were looking f...
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Ethics reports should be made publicNov 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Here we have yet another example of why the state's ethics laws need to be refined. The Chicago Tribune and Associated Press reported last week that a state employee is ...
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Law enforcement needs funding boostNov 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Crime doesn't pay. As long as we pay to fight it, that is. And there should be no doubt that the excellent law enforcement system in DuPage County will start listing bad...
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Soapbox: Silly law; silly lawsuitNov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - It takes a highly elastic imagination to fathom just how the constitutional rights of Buffalo Grove atheist Robert Sherman or his daughter might be harmed by a newly req...