Public pension thoughts
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Our view: Standing up for taxpayers
Bob Anderson has been the subject of both praise and scorn in his years-long crusade against expansive government.
All about kids
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About Project Two
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Hats off
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Lemery: Hacksaw or scalpel, deep cuts are coming
There’s a familiar scene in many medical shows where a hospital is flooded with trauma patients from some terrible event.
Lyons: Have U.S. street protests become passé?
In 2011, Time magazine’s Person of the Year was The Protester. But if you watched much coverage of this week’s NATO protests, you might be left wondering whether The Protester in the U.S. was an over-hyped rookie sensation.
Ride of silence
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Our view: Sell value 
of higher ed
It might be years before the McHenry County College board of trustees decides to ask taxpayers for funds to pay for an envisioned $279 million, 10-year expansion of the college.
Energy costs
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Supports Harvard Savings
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Distorted facts
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Homegrown living
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Support and kindness
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Oliver: Be careful, grads, when it comes to money
Congratulations, class of 2012.
Tax bill woes
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Our view: Be safe if traveling over holiday
Memorial Day weekend is fast approaching.
Summer school
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Recalling Memorial Days past, and hoping for the future
As we near another Memorial Day weekend, I find myself traveling back in time, yet again, to my little boy days, when I was 10 years old, way back in 1962.
Library a bargain
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Aghast at tax bill
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Nutty decision
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Our view: Act now on fiscal reform
With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly has much still to do before it adjourns May 31.
America’s beginning
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De Soto leads expedition across South U.S.
On this day (May 21) in 1542, Spanish conquistador and explorer Hernando de Soto died of what was described as “a semitropical fever” while exploring the western bank of the Mississippi River in modern-day Arkansas.
Can’t take anymore
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Obscene taxes
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Outrageous tax bill
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Supreme Court threat?
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Measuring poorly
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Library expansion
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Our view: The business of governing
We’re relieved that a proposal to create a new class of license that would allow a winery to open in McHenry County finally emerged from the tangled grapevines of a county parliamentary procedure that almost suffocated it.
McCaleb: Pros and cons of wildlife refuge
Creating a national wildlife refuge on thousands of acres of largely rural land might seem like a no-brainer to area environmentalists.
Peasley: Memorial Day kicks off in Square
Woodstock VFW and Woodstock American Legion members will lead Woodstock’s annual Memorial Day observation May 28.
Penkava: The sun sets on a special restaurant
I like egg rolls. Especially when you dip them in that innocent-looking yellow sauce that waits five seconds before setting the inside of your nose on fire.
Sorting out spin
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Harvard Savings team
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Necessary evil
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Our view: Saving state museums
Illinois government faces myriad difficult decisions in dealing with its tight finances.