Jim Davis
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Puffy helmets make life safer for young athletesNov 22, 2015 6:00 am - The news, as I recall it, didn't create stop-and-take-notice headlines throughout Illinois. State legislators this summer made it law that virtually all schools where sp...
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Davis: Pot jokes lead to a serious topicNov 16, 2015 12:00 pm - We editor types, many of us more or less children of the '60s, had a pretty good time cracking wise about the startup of medical marijuana in Illinois and the suburbs. N...
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Huntley Daisy troop takes us back to the basics of truth and fairnessOct 31, 2015 10:00 am - OK, I said to the young visitors, does anyone know what Facebook is? "It's where you keep your pictures," called out one enthusiastic member of Daisy Troop 250, all kind...
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Writing about report cards ain't exactly academicOct 24, 2015 2:00 pm - It's one of the most complex and comprehensive tasks we take on at this newspaper each year. The Illinois State Report Card - a massive data dump of student standardized...
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These tales might bolster your faith in humanityOct 18, 2015 5:00 am - I could fill this column each week by recapping some of the stories we come across that fuel your faith in humanity. Hammering that point home was Jim Fuller's Page 1 s...
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Heroin, mental health: Stories that don't endOct 10, 2015 2:00 pm - "If our lives were a movie, if our lives were a book/It'd be longer than I could defend/'Cause if you're telling a story, at some point you stop/But stories don't end." ...
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Second valiant effort to save eagle falls shortOct 02, 2015 11:00 pm - It was a story of great hope and raptorian perseverance. Wounded by a BB gun and with a pellet lodged in his wing, the bald eagle could not fly. Nor could he find water ...
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Images: Icons of ElginSep 26, 2015 1:00 am - I spent some time in Elgin taking photos of eye-catching, unique and/or significant elements that make the community different from the rest. I've lived in Elgin for the...
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40 years later, a reminder cops can be coolSep 25, 2015 11:00 pm - It was 8 p.m. or so on a weeknight. Nothing going on. So my friends and I decided it would be cool to pull into the parking lot of an elementary school, loiter, and see ...
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Mind-boggling I-88 traffic solution nears finish lineSep 12, 2015 12:00 pm - It was innovative, maybe even mind-boggling. But when the "diverging diamond" reconfiguration of the I-88 and Route 59 interchange was proposed more than five years ago,...