Talk of raising minimum wage growing silent
— April 12, 2017For quite a while you couldn’t read a newspaper or watch news on TV without hearing about raising the minimum wage. It was THE hot topic. I can’t remember the last time…
Tag: Winnebago County Chronicle
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Risk and reward: No guarantees in the business of flipping houses for profit
— April 12, 2017It’s fair to say that Mike Lunde never saw a house that he couldn’t improve. This can-do attitude has led Lunde, a broker for Team Lunde at Rockford’s Gambino Realtors, to start…
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Small town Byron’s big league baseball claim to fame
— April 6, 2017In tiny Byron, favorite son Albert Goodwill Spalding is sometimes credited as the “Father of Baseball.” The truth is more complicated in a sport that traces its origins to…
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Founding Fathers knew what they were doing
— April 5, 2017I’m proud to be an American. I just don’t say it enough. We seldom do. We expend our breath on politics, complaining about our elected officials. But too seldom do we stand back…
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On Obamacare, a partywide failure
— April 5, 2017There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care. They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd fast…
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Winnebago County Calendar
— April 11, 2017THROUGH APRIL 16 75th Anniversary Exhibit – “Rediscover Burpee” Burpee Museum of Natural History, Woodward Hall 737 N. Main St., Rockford through April 16,…
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Crashing back to Earth
— April 5, 2017Let’s dispense with the sanctimony and admit it: Most of us really enjoy piling on. I know I do. There are few things more exhilarating than participating in mass malice. Rarely…
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Winnebago County News Briefs
— April 5, 2017ROCKFORD Amerock development remains on hold A proposal to turn a shabby downtown Rockford high-rise into a hotel/conference center remains on hold. According to reports, the city…
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