Editorial

Editorial

Progress on tax fairness

St. Clair County Assessor Gordon Bush's initiative to get new construction on the tax rolls more quickly is welcome, if belated.
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Lessons from Iraq

The horrors of war -- and a reminder of why we fight wars -- were brought into vivid focus last week.
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Too quick to call a lawyer

Fairview Heights aldermen are asking legitimate questions about the city's water contract with O'Fallon. If their reading of the contract is correct, city residents are being charged more for water than the contract allows.
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At last, a budget

Stookey Township belatedly has figured out that budgets are important.
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Pay attention to poverty

The U.S. Census Bureau's latest poverty statistics for St. Clair County are alarming and need to be a call to action.

DIGEST

Not too late to pull the deal

Madison County State's Attorney Bill Mudge is right to ask a judge to undo a bad plea deal he gave Frank M. "Mitch" Durr, of Alton, initially charged with misdemeanor drunken driving.
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History gets the ax

Fort de Chartres, Fort Kaskaskia, the Pierre Menard home and the Cahokia Courthouse aren't essential government services, but they certainly are desirable ones.
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Working hard to stay afloat

The economy is working hard this Labor Day to keep us guessing about the future.
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Quit fighting over Allsup

When a major employer wants to create 70 jobs in one year and build a $10 million office building, most government leaders' reaction would be: How do we help make that happen? That's especially true today in these challenging economic times.
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Sound-off 9/8

Lawsuit caps count: I'm interested to know how a group of lawyers comes up with the idea that the medical malpractice crisis was just an insurance cycle and that the lawsuit caps are doing nothing. The caps keep the lawyers from being able to extort large settlements prior to the doctor's day in court. Now doctors can go to court because they are not as worried about large losses. The fact is it's not perfect, but it's working. If it were just an insurance cycle, the whole country would be suffering...