Jim Davis
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Lawmakers, here's a bill you really could get behindJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Excerpt from an official, top-secret, confidential internal memo I fired off to the bosses this past week: “This is too late to help us this time around, but I think we ...
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Leadership Team, people behind it, simply inspiringDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - How about some words on a topic that might be inspirational as we close in on the Christmas holiday? For more than a decade, the Daily Herald has formally honored our hi...
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So many offices, candidates, so little timeDec 09, 2012 4:00 am - I've long held that the suburbs need a benevolent dictator or perhaps an elected king. I say that in jest, of course, but it's no laughing matter how many units of gover...
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Cameras in the courtroom: It’s ‘not entertainment’Dec 02, 2012 4:00 am - “What we have here,” the grizzled editor says to the cub reporter, “is a case of the public’s right to know running smack dab into its right not to care.” The quote, I b...
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Absent-minded editor glad staff has his backNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The news release came in late Wednesday afternoon, announcing that a man from Glen Ellyn had won a $1 million lottery drawing. As a veteran news editor, I knew exactly w...
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'Nicest letter' a welcome break from the vitriolNov 03, 2012 11:00 pm - In a memo to our editorial board, my “subject” line read, “Nicest letter ever.” I followed up that high praise with, “at least for someone disagreeing with our president...
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Local candidates stretch the truth, but do voters care?Oct 14, 2012 5:00 am - A Time magazine article delivers some unsurprising news: Candidates make false or misleading claims about their opponents. But the story goes a step further: Most people...
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Joining a half billion people for Ryder Cup rideSep 30, 2012 5:00 am - Official item from the DuPage County editor's news budget for the editions of Friday, Sept. 28: RYDER.OPENINGCEREMONY ... 15-18” w/pics ALL ZONES: All the pomp of the op...
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Lombard at loggerheads on landing a leaderSep 17, 2012 8:00 am - I give you the opening quote to staff writer Marie Wilson’s story about the Lombard village board’s inability to select an interim leader to fill out the remainder of Vi...
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Farewell to the man who gave great adviceSep 09, 2012 5:00 am - There’s a thing called the “tomorrow” file. It’s where reporters are supposed to let us editor types know what they’ll be working on the next day. Everyone gets busy, an...