Editorials
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Bianchi must cut tax-supported office eatsOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Longtime public officials sometimes spend so much time in office or with others of their own ilk that they forget how the private sector lives. McHenry County State's A...
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Losers are clear in health-care battleOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Even under the best of circumstances, patients often find it confusing to navigate the maze of rules, procedures and paperwork that inevitably accompany health care and ...
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U-46 teachers should say 'yes' to good dealOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - When Elgin School District U-46's 2,400 teachers vote by secret ballot Oct. 15 on a proposed three-year contract, we urge them to say "yes." The deal, already tentativel...
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Soapbox: Quit packing east sideOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - No doubt Elgin City Council members will point to the $275,000 to $325,000 value of the 14 homes proposed on the 3-acre former YMCA property as reason to approve such a...
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Soapbox: District earns national recognitionOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 definitely deserves a gold star. For the second straight year, one of the district's schools was named a No Child Left Behind Blue ...
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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...