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Archive for November, 2006

Some thoughts on Chris Bailey’s editorial

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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She made some good points worth considering:
By arguing that $500,000 would buy the city some dates at Elgin Academy’s proposed $9.5 million Media, Science and Fine Arts Center, council members were expecting city residents not to notice they would be subsidizing rich, mostly out-of-town parents who can afford to pay $10,000 to $15,000 per year […]

Some recent food articles from the New York Times

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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Eric Asimov’s reviews of Midwestern wine.
Article about the Iowa wine industry.
Article on locally-grown produce.
Foraging for mushrooms in France.
The article on mushroom hunting in France shows that mushrooms can be hunted without any danger really of depleting their supply. The French have been hunting mushrooms for thousands of years and they haven’t run out. […]

Outsource

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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“How can we keep adding more streets and sewers and ask the same people to continue to do the job over a wider area and not schedule anyone to be hired in the next five years?â€? Sandor asked, adding his dismay about spending money to buy another street sweeper without anyone to run it…
The five-year […]

When you let a convict run an election

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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Neuberger also criticized the county clerk for failing to get any early voting sites in unincorporated Aurora Township, or in Montgomery…
Board member Holly Kissane, D-Carpentersville, said there were so many problems in Dundee Township precincts that there now are citizens talking about getting a referendum question to consider establishing a separate election commission for the […]