Articles filed under Bailey, Chris
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Good sense and free speech lost amid all the contrived rancorNov 3, 2021 6:13 PM - Even after nearly a quarter-century in the news business, there remain moments when I want to stand on my desk screaming, "Have you people lost your ever-lovin' minds?"
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Names may change, but embarrassing outcome never doesNov 3, 2021 4:14 PM - Image is a lot like a rumor. Somewhere it has a basis in fact. Fact then often skewed to excess, but fact at its heart nonetheless.
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Can't hide from the 'here today, gone tomorrow' drumbeatNov 3, 2021 12:19 PM - Despite the card in my wallet, I can only assume I am no longer one of Brian Mix's VIPs.
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Credit card rejection seems ironic amid our current excessesNov 3, 2021 11:24 AM - The parent of a teenager with even marginal grades needs a paper shredder to deal with all the credit card and college loan offers that arrive unsolicited.
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'Interference' can be found in so many interesting formsNov 3, 2021 10:21 AM - You'd have thought I was asking for a copy of the "Pentagon Papers" or Prince Harry's latest military assignment. Nothing that interesting. Just a simple traffic ticket.
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Only government would boast about a decision this stupidNov 3, 2021 8:19 AM - There's nothing quite like a presidential election campaign for suggesting government solutions to nearly every human condition. For a few months, we are painted a picture of what government might be, not what it is.
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Will 1,695 district voices, new members trump U-46 habits?Nov 2, 2021 6:58 PM - Sheer numbers pretty much tell the story. When Pro-Act Search Inc. asked Elgin School District U-46 residents for input on the next superintendent, it didn't get apathy. It got an earful.
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Hoping for spring amid entertainment of winter skirmishesNov 2, 2021 5:06 PM - Snow. Cold. Endless gray. To be followed, no doubt by a baby boomlet come September and October.
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Comrades united in a modern-day Battle of WaterlooNov 2, 2021 4:08 PM - Tom Lutz stood no chance. His first clue should have been the forecast. His second should have been that he'd drawn the short straw that put a journalist irate about poor Elgin public services into his snowplow for the day.
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Relief and nostalgia descend as clock clicks down to freeing 21Nov 2, 2021 3:05 PM - As the clock above my desk clicks toward 1:20 p.m. tomorrow, I'll be watching. And wondering if the huge weight of responsibility that descended in a Sherman Hospital delivery room at that exact moment 21 years ago will just as suddenly fly away.
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