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Daily Herald opinion: A great Arlington Heights tradition is still rolling along

Daily Herald opinion: A great Arlington Heights tradition is still rolling along

Daily Herald opinion: For more than 50 years, the Arlington Heights Memorial Library’s Bookmobile has continued an important community tradition, bringing books, programs and library services directly to neighborhoods throughout Arlington Heights.

 
Daily Herald opinion: Preliminary report emphasizes the unpredictable conditions that make every rail crossing a risk

Daily Herald opinion: Preliminary report emphasizes the unpredictable conditions that make every rail crossing a risk

Daily Herald opinion: The combination of factors being studied in the investigation of an deadly October 2025 train-truck collision emphasizes the unpredictable circumstances that require special driver attention at every rail crossing, even when a situation may seem familiar and safe.

 
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Daily Herald opinion: Surveillance fears: Legislation, community leadership needed to calm growing concerns about risks of license readers

Daily Herald opinion: Surveillance fears: Legislation, community leadership needed to calm growing concerns about risks of license readers

Some days it is hard to know which technological wonder is more aggravating to people in the suburbs, data processing centers or Flock cameras. In recent weeks, Flock cam...

 

Letters to the Editor

Traffic is becoming scary. Nobody seems to care about following traffic law or being considerate of other drivers. Stop signs don’t apply to them, yellow lights mean just...

 

Clearing Chicago’s skies

The orange haze that has blanketed the Chicago skyline over recent summers is a stark reminder that climate disasters do not carry passports. Record-breaking wildfires ac...

 
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A naming irony

As children, many of us learned an acronym to remember the great lakes, "HOMES" for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. Using that logic, the new acronym is "HA...

 

Columns

Into the breach: Global Camps Africa works to rescue Africans' future

Into the breach: Global Camps Africa works to rescue Africans' future

Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: After the heartless dismantling of the USAID program in Africa, smart, dedicated humanitarians are attempting to step into the breach.

 
On making another trip around the sun

On making another trip around the sun

Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson:

 
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Wars — economic and shooting — in a strange time

Wars — economic and shooting — in a strange time

Columnist Jim Slusher: I try to avoid getting too personal in this column, whose intent is to discuss and analyze matters of news reporting and news making. But this is one of those times when personal activities and events in the news overlap in a curious way.

 

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