Chris Bailey
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Why worry about the mob when the state already acts like one?Nov 01, 2021 11:27 pm - "Soooo. You wanna do business in our neighborhood, do ya? Well, maybe we'll let you. For a price. How's about $50,000 per chair just to get ya rollin'? "And then, we'll...
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Bad idea to insult parents' intelligence; talk reality, not policyNov 01, 2021 10:25 pm - There's one truth about parents. They tend to focus on their own kids to the exclusion of almost anything else. That's why I've always thought it unwise for schools to s...
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No truly 'green' city should flounder so over nature's basicsNov 01, 2021 9:31 pm - I felt sorry for the man. Elgin City Councilman Mike Powers wasn't too happy with a recent column in which I'd suggested a big budget goose egg in public works manpower ...
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A growing school investment providing very little to justify itNov 01, 2021 8:24 pm - If this newspaper's School Finance 101 series showed nothing else, it was that Illinois taxpayers have not been pinching pennies on education. Since 1996, state taxpayer...
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Review those lessons in communication from 'Luke': 1967Nov 01, 2021 7:29 pm - "What we have here is failure to communicate." So said prison boss Strother Martin to Paul Newman's convict in the 1967 prison film "Cool Hand Luke," a screen classic pa...
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No deciphering the 'non-user friendly' or 'obscure' tax billNov 01, 2021 6:29 pm - When the property tax bill cometh, I normally listen for my husband's scream, drop a hand of commiseration on his shoulder and forget about it. Compelled by an odd masoc...
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Master skater Padron returned to thin home ice, despite long historyNov 01, 2021 5:25 pm - Jesse Padron has been a cloud over the Elgin Police Department for so long, it now seems he must have brought his own rainmaker. Hired in 1988, he managed to work about ...
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Ailment, apparently contagious, strikes U-46 board againNov 01, 2021 4:23 pm - No more doubt exists. Whatever malady it is that infects the sitting president of any Elgin School District U-46 School Board and turns them into chattering gerbils, Ken...
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Frustrated U-46 teachers send out a familiar messageNov 01, 2021 3:23 pm - They are split down the middle. Tired of elected policy-makers ignoring their concerns and making silence a response. Tired of their boss getting rich while they do all ...
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Seeing a fine 2nd career in the lifestyle enforcement gameNov 01, 2021 2:27 pm - There I was, minding my own business when the e-mails from colleagues arrived just minutes apart. Not once did they consider their actions might be detrimental to my hea...