Daily Herald Editorial Board
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Daily Herald opinion: Requiem for Ribfest: A jewel among suburban celebrations is gone, but its spirit will live onAug 14, 2024 4:00 am - Beloved traditions do not fade easily or painlessly. Sometimes, they may not truly fade at all. Many suburban residents, especially in DuPage County, likely well remember...
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Daily Herald opinion: Patience could pay off for forest preserveAug 12, 2024 6:00 pm - The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County is making another attempt to acquire a horse boarding farm near Wheaton. But this time, district officials did not try to force the sale and instead waited for the family to restart negotiations.
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Daily Herald opinion: Nixon's advice: A half century later, what lessons are we to take from the only presidential resignation in history?Aug 10, 2024 7:44 pm - Friday marked the half century anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation. Fifty years ago, a distance of almost a lifetime. Those of us who witnessed it then in the flow...
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Daily Herald opinion: A thoughtful, measured approach is the right way to discuss cellphone bans in schoolsAug 07, 2024 4:00 am - Parents, this is your heads up — the conversation surrounding cellphones in classrooms is probably coming to a school near you. If you read reporter Alicia Fabbre’s artic...
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Daily Herald opinion: As consumers of information, we have a duty to challenge claims that seem too boldAug 03, 2024 1:52 pm - A couple weeks ago, we noticed that a former state senator from the suburbs shared a Celebrity Updates post on Facebook declaring that ABC had signed conservative persona...
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Daily Herald opinion: It’s not just on the open highway where excessive speed killsAug 02, 2024 4:00 am - We’ve been hearing the statistics for years: Speeding kills. As reporter Marni Pyke told us on Monday, just last year 1,214 people were killed in Illinois vehicle crashes...
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Daily Herald opinion: Two distinct events on the Chain add emphasis to need for boating safetyJul 31, 2024 4:00 am - There is an inescapable irony in the launches of two very different operations on the Chain O’ Lakes this week. One is the dedication Tuesday of a new Lake County Sheriff...
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Daily Herald opinion: Making Longmeadow Parkway toll-free will benefit the regionJul 29, 2024 2:04 pm - The long wait for the Longmeadow Parkway Bridge to open in northeast Kane County is nearly over. And motorists will not have to pay to use it to cross the Fox River, than...
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Daily Herald opinion: Conversation, at least, needed to ensure adequate safety, education of home-schooled studentsJul 28, 2024 2:00 pm - Given past legislative experience in Illinois over simply raising the subject of home-school regulation, state Rep. Terra Costa Howard is taking a bold step in calling fo...
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Daily Herald opinion: ‘Zombie offices’give suburbs a chance to re-imagine the futureJul 26, 2024 4:00 am - A zombie invasion after a pandemic sounds like a big-budget summer movie straight out of the mind of writers in Hollywood. It turns out zombies did invade a number of sub...