Kerry Lester
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Lester: Are medical marijuana users risking a DUI?Nov 16, 2015 4:45 am - Illinois has given 3,300 people licenses to use medical marijuana, but it hasn't set a threshold at which it considers them safe to drive. That means it is up to a polic...
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Lester: Transgender policies today's new frontier for schoolsNov 11, 2015 10:00 pm - Is the battle over locker room policies for transgender students akin to the school desegregation battle of the 1960s? One suburban superintendent thinks so. “My job is...
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Law could strip Gliniewicz family of survivor benefitsNov 09, 2015 4:30 am - Lester: Nekritz's law opens door to strip benefits from those who commit felonies on the job
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Preckwinkle outlines Cook County hotel tax plan to replace cable tax ideaNov 06, 2015 12:00 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Friday outlined a plan for a 1 percent hotel and motel tax that replaces earlier efforts to add a 3 percent surcharge ont...
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Lester: How an Arlington Heights shoe repairman juggles cancer, IronmansNov 05, 2015 4:30 am - Fighting leukemia is an all-encompassing endeavor. So is training for an Ironman race. Imagine doing both at the same time. Running (sometimes literally) around the stat...
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Schneider: Preckwinkle abandoning cable TV taxNov 05, 2015 12:00 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is scrapping efforts to add a 3 percent "amusement tax" to cable TV bills to help close a nearly $200 million budget shortfa...
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Lester: Why one suburban school is stocking heroin antidoteNov 02, 2015 4:40 am - Schools across the suburbs soon will be able to treat heroin and prescription drug overdoses the same way they treat severe allergic reactions, but one suburban district...
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New archdiocese schools chief focusing on enrollment, Catholic missionNov 02, 2015 12:00 am - In his tenure as superintendent of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's schools, Jim Rigg earned a reputation as an efficiency guy. Rigg stepped into a Cincinnati parochial s...
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Lester: McGuire doubts College of DuPage lawyers, asks attorney general's adviceOct 29, 2015 5:10 am - College of DuPage Trustee Dianne McGuire this week fired off a letter to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, asking whether the college would be on the hook for...
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Lester: Suburban schools' cries about pension contributions prompt Dold to actOct 26, 2015 5:30 am - Frustration from suburban school districts that have to use big chunks of federal grant money to pay for pensions fueled U.S. Rep. Bob Dold's efforts to change federal ...