Editorials
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Soapbox: Learn from a lucky breakOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Randall Visor should feel lucky. The Batavia man, who is responsible for the deaths of four people 10 years ago in a drunken-driving accident, and for driving without a ...
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Soapbox: Slow it downOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - State transportation officials say a stretch of Route 83 through Prospect Heights has neither enough accidents nor driveways to merit lowering the speed limit from 40 mp...
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SIU reputation takes another hitOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Yes, our boss made "errors and mistakes" in writing his doctoral dissertation, said a faculty committee at Southern Illinois University. Yes, there were "many instances"...
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Soapbox: Big bucks for over-budget buildingOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - One would think that $48.7 million is plenty of money to construct College of DuPage's new Technology Education Center. But officials at the Glen Ellyn college have lear...
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Gore's prize should spur U.S. actionOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Tennessee has grand reason to be proud of Al Gore, a Tennessean whose relentless efforts to raise awareness about global warming have led to his being awarded the Nobel ...
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Required silence serves no purposeOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The General Assembly has had worse ideas -- this is, after all, Illinois. But seldom has it invited so much second-guessing and controversy over a move of so little demo...
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County officials must share budget painOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - In the end, it probably would have taken a fairy godmother to bail DuPage County out of its budget crisis. But maybe she was too busy with other things to waste time wav...
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Shield law's not a threat to our nationOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - It is regrettable that opponents of legislation aimed at protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources view the measure as a grave threat to our nation's securi...
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Timing key on Batavia downtown planOct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - We expected a few sparks to fly when a public hearing was conducted Monday at Batavia city hall regarding the creation of a special service area tax for the downtown bus...
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Override adds dose of fairness to safetyOct 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Despite the governor's contention that a "do-over" on juvenile sex offender registration requirements "condones leniency toward sex offenders," the General Assembly's ov...