Jim Davis
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Here are four of many unsung heroes of 2011Jan 01, 2012 11:00 pm - Had your fill yet of all those end-of-the-year wrapups, recaps, bests and worsts? No? Glad to hear it. So here’s just one more before we get about the business of the ne...
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Regis, roadwork tip of iceberg for DH internDec 11, 2011 4:00 am - Pop quiz. Q. Name the legendary Daily Herald journalist who contributed to these sections of Friday’s print editions: News, Neighbor and Time out! A. It’s intern...
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Holidays: A test to see if your glass is half fullNov 27, 2011 4:00 am - The holidays, if you ask me, are when one is really tested by the timeworn question: Is your glass half full or half empty? The day before Thanksgiving, I’ll admit, I wa...
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Lombard foreign correspondent’s career winds downNov 13, 2011 4:00 am - The final paragraph of Army Lt. Matt Spartz’s Veterans Day column, I told him, put a lump in my throat first time I read it. It said: “But most of all, we honor our fall...
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Stop the presses! It’s Tea Party, not tea partyNov 06, 2011 7:00 am - Let me announce that from this day forward, it is the Tea Party. Not the tea party. At least in the Daily Herald, where we made the decision to depart from The Associate...
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How our schools excel while failing the examOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Our children’s schools are failing. More so than ever. That’s the message being conveyed if you look strictly at the data of the 2011 report card for all schools in Illi...
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Leaders don’t play chicken in this debateOct 23, 2011 6:00 am - Q. Why did the chicken cross the road? A. To force civic leaders into protracted discussions about whether the very presence of chickens should be permitted in the subur...
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Breast cancer hits close to homeOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - A West Chicago youth football team wearing pink socks; health organizations from Aurora, Barrington and Naperville preparing pink-themed videos. Those are just two of th...
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Reader complaints provide valuable lesson: Bee carefulOct 02, 2011 4:00 am - IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING ... ... was the upsized, uppercased heading above the missive from a reader unhappy with our mistreatment of the beloved honey bees. When I say “...
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Police drama? It helps if you’re the beholderSep 18, 2011 5:00 am - Many years ago, before I-355 was built, before we covered Lombard, when the Daily Herald’s lone editorial office was in Arlington Heights, I was headed home and stopped ...