Jim Davis
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Hard to please with endorsementsMar 09, 2011 11:00 pm - In many ways, it's a lose-lose. Endorse the incumbents and take a pass on the rabble-rousing dissonants. Or, suggest voters give the voices of change a chance to shake t...
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Candidate session: What you say here won't stay hereMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Actual excerpts of e-mail discussion among Daily Herald staffers. Names redacted to protect the guilty and to avoid getting ahead of the story. Editor 1: “As several of ...
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Attention!!! An election is coming up soonFeb 23, 2011 11:00 pm - Someone around here (OK, it might be me) often opines that except for the people directly involved, no one pays attention to local elections until about a week before th...
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Tweet will show that I'm not just a twitFeb 10, 2011 12:00 am - I thought I was being funny, but a member of my staff figured I was just clueless. I sent this note announcing my whereabouts on Thursday morning: “DuPage Staff ... I wi...
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Snow removal can get deadly seriousFeb 02, 2011 11:00 pm - One of my “direct reports,” as we call our employees in corporatespeak, reported he'd be a little late for work the morning after the third-biggest accumulation of snow ...
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Oh, for the rare story with a happy endingJan 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Oftentimes, the news we come across is not so good. Sometimes, though, it's good. And, every once in a blue moon, the news starts out bad and ends up good. An example of...
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About that nude photo shoot by Evan LysacekDec 29, 2010 10:00 pm - Being an eagle-eyed editor and all, I just knew something big was going on when virtually the entire staff was gathered around an editor's computer screen a few months a...
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A relentless battle for the most basic candidate informationDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Hey, I said, we should cover the installation of Joe Birkett as a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court's Second District in Elgin next week. Not so fast, Daily Heral...
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OK, candidates, fork over those e-mail addressesDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - OK, here we go again. Didn't we just finish with an election? I know we must have, as our new DuPage County Board chairman, Dan Cronin, will be sworn in Monday night. Bu...
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By the time we got to Barnstock ... we were kinda oldNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - There was a great Top Ten list on Letterman some time ago. Names for an upcoming Rolling Stones tour: “Geezers with Guitars,” “Hey, You, Get Off My Barcalounger” and my ...