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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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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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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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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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...
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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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Stable ACT scores can't mask concernsOct 31, 2021 5:21 pm - Why are so few Illinois high school graduates prepared for basic college-level academics? And how can matters be improved? Those again emerge as the most important quest...
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Two key points emerge from woes in home mortgagesOct 31, 2021 5:16 pm - Exactly a century ago, panic seized financial markets. The collateral for perhaps half the bank loans in New York was securities whose values had been inflated by specul...
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This group earned pink slips, not raisesOct 31, 2021 5:15 pm - Only a governor operating in left field and a legislature operating in the financial twilight zone could subject Illinois residents to such governmental ineptitude as we...