Editorials
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Soapbox: Sickening swims; benefits of publicity?Oct 31, 2021 5:37 pm - Anybody but us think it shouldn't take an Illinois Department of Public Health warning to know it isn't wise to let pets cavort in human swimming pools? Yet some pet lov...
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Soapbox: This aud-it do it in Dist. 303Oct 31, 2021 5:42 pm - A very good idea has emerged in the St. Charles school district, where officials have instructed auditors doing their annual work to break down and report specifically h...
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Soapbox: The new Randhurst; what's bugging you?Oct 31, 2021 5:41 pm - The Randhurst Shopping Center has been such an integral part of the Northwest suburbs for decades. Here's hoping that plans to build it anew as Randhurst Village are suc...
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No gas-tax hike for infrastructureOct 31, 2021 5:41 pm - A proposal by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise the federal gasoline tax to repair bridges comes at a bad time. While we agree that a lot of our br...
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Jones acting like a politician at the end of his runOct 31, 2021 5:36 pm - If this year's legislative session is any indication, Democratic Senate President Emil Jones Jr. appears like a politician at the end of his run. The old-school lawmaker...
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Jim and Jake's Ogden Adventure (read the column; see the video)Oct 31, 2021 5:35 pm - The city of Naperville wants to do a makeover of Ogden Avenue. I'm presuming city fathers would like it to be as attractive and successful as its downtown. That's no mea...
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A real-life baseball tale shows that redemption and glory are possibleOct 31, 2021 5:33 pm - In the fable, the farm boy phenom makes his way to the big city to amaze the world with his arm. At a stop at a fair on the train ride to Chicago, he strikes out the Bab...
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Wanted by disillusioned public: leadersOct 31, 2021 5:34 pm - While candidates and pundits wonder endlessly if a presidential wannabe is black enough or woman enough, too Mormon, too liberal or too conservative, voters and taxpaye...
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Emotion, conflict help put life in budget storiesOct 31, 2021 5:23 pm - Budget stories always present a quandary for newspapers. On one hand, tracking how governments spend tax money is one of the most important things we do in a democracy....
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Thompson will attempt to shake the status quoOct 31, 2021 5:22 pm - When Fred Thompson makes his entrance into the Republican presidential race, he will try to shake up the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation i...