After years of exposure to blogs and various commenting devices on Web sites, I still find myself astounded by the venom displayed by some posters.
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Since early October, hardly a day has passed that I have not seen a deer.
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You can consider me to be a Halloween kind of Scrooge.
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I don't pretend to know how a lot of people do their jobs.
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Ron Ingram has spent 40 years as a Herald & Review reporter, which as Mark Tupper so eloquently said, puts him about halfway to Bob Fallstrom, our intrepid community news editor, who has been here for 60 years.
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I've always had a soft spot in my heart for farmers. It's not just because I am from Iowa or I like to eat; though both are true.
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To paraphrase Neil Armstrong's words from the 1969 landing of Apollo 11's lunar module on the surface of the moon, "the ego has landed."
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In one of the weirdest twists of irony imaginable, our former governor, Rod Blagojevich, is trying to paint himself as a populist.
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One of the best things about being a newspaper editor is it also gives me a chance to be a teacher.
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I violated my general rule of television watching last Friday night and turned to CNN to see what the network was doing about the death of Walter Cronkite.
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I violated my general rule of television watching last Friday night and turned to CNN to see what the network was doing about the death of Walter Cronkite.
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Monday will mark 40 years since a human landed on the moon.
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When the conversation turns to reunions, some people want to literally turn and run. No amount of money can get them to return and face people they knew in high school.
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The only thing I could think of as the credits rolled on the last episode of "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" were the immortal words of Gerald Ford, uttered shortly after he took the oath of office after the resignation of Richard Nixon: "My fellow Americans, our long national n…
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The only thing I could think of as the credits rolled on the last episode of "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" were the immortal words of Gerald Ford, uttered shortly after he took the oath of office after the resignation of Richard Nixon: "My fellow Americans, our long national n…
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It can seem at times like Illinois is the only state with embarrassing leaders.
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After watching "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" for almost three weeks, I still don't know what the point of the show is.
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Some bad news for the squeamish people who populate the Costa Rican jungle on "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!"
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As show business goes, I would have been more entertained seeing a pack of tarantulas go after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Speaking on behalf of perhaps all but 8 percent of the population of Illinois, I think we deserved to see that.
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I tend to get defensive when I hear someone tear into the performance of the Decatur School District.
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