Jim Davis
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A curmudgeon's guide to 4th of July festival funJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Yes, of course I enjoyed Jake Griffin's story on the front page of Thursday's paper. I helped him come up with the concept. It offered all sorts of useful tips on how to...
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Guffaws at seat-belt award reminder of important life lessonJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - OK, I'll admit it: We journalist types are a little jaded, and occasionally we do talk somewhat frivolously about the news we cover. Case in point: On today's Page 5, we...
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Hey, it's Take Your Dog's Picture, Bring it to Work DayJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I'll admit it: I didn't really think it'd be a good idea to observe "Take Your Dog to Work Day" at the Daily Herald today. When I was asking people in other offices for ...
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Getting off the Soapbox to look at the rest of the storyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Actual corporate e-mail chain revealing the inner workings of the Daily Herald and its DuPage editor: (Editorial Page Editor John Zimmerman to Jim Davis): "Hi, Jim…Would...
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A little humanity in an increasingly heartless worldMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - If Jim Caudill weren't my friend. If I hadn't talked at length to the sister of a murder victim -- or to a friend of a man critically injured on his motorcycle. Perhaps,...
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Motives unclear in deaths of Roselle familyMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Young Joe Fontana was a bowling prodigy. He'd grab a 12-pound ball, roll it down the lane with both hands and proclaim that he was imparting a little "hook" to his shot....
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Why it's becoming more and more all about youMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The pitch that came to Assistant City Editor Anne Halston was probably not unlike hundreds she has gotten in her 13 years as an editor at the Daily Herald. It went somet...
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Some Barenaked thoughts about ...May 15, 2008 11:00 pm - So, here we are -- my son, his friend and I -- standing in a long line outside Border's bookstore in Oak Brook on Saturday. We're waiting to get in to see my favorite ba...
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Mrs. Keigher's sixth graders provide some hope for the futureMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Perhaps there is hope for kids. And newspapers. The two often don't go hand in hand. More so than ever, we keep hearing about how young people don't read newspapers. A c...
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Say a prayer for our National Day of Prayer?May 01, 2008 11:00 pm - As this is written, I've seen about 1.5 of the three stories we're doing on the myriad National Day of Prayer services throughout DuPage County. I think my favorite will...