Opinion Stories from February 19, 2018 (Change date)
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Endorsement: Quigley for the Democrats in Congress Dist. 5Feb 20, 2018 7:07 am - Mike Quigley has been in Congress since 2009 and has been a reliably progressive voice on immigration, net neutrality, gay rights and reinstating the ban on assault weap...
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Endorsement: Wynes for the GOP in Congress Dist. 10Feb 20, 2018 7:07 am - After almost a decade of swinging back and forth between Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider and former Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold, the 10th Congressional District ha...
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Endorsement: Underwood for the Democrats in Congress Dist. 14Feb 20, 2018 7:07 am - In a midterm election, so the theory goes, the president's party generally has a tougher time holding seats in Congress. Seven Democratic candidates, however, believe th...
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Gov. Rauner's misguided budgetFeb 20, 2018 9:50 am - Okay, local districts will take over pensions as soon as 1) the state pays all past due amounts, you know the payments that were skipped to support otherwise unfunded sp...
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Consider lobbying costs for spending cutsFeb 19, 2018 12:00 am - As drastic federal cutbacks take place, more social service issues will need to be addressed at the county level. But DuPage County's budget shows expenditures exceeding...
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Report dangerous do-nothingsFeb 20, 2018 9:50 am - The word from Florida is, "If you see or hear something, say something." Shhhh, I have heard that there is a group of people in Washington D.C. who are doing nothing to ...
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Imagine if Gore had won in 2000Feb 19, 2018 12:00 am - I wonder what life would be like in the U.S. had Al Gore had won the 2000 election. Since Clinton/Gore had already been through the 1998 attack on the World Trade Center...
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It's time we adopt common-sense gun lawsFeb 20, 2018 9:50 am - There have been eight school shootings in the U.S. in 2018 and the year is less than two months old. The old worn out saying that "Guns don't kill, people do." just do...
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Home rule gives village too much taxing powerFeb 20, 2018 9:50 am - Because of home rule, the village of East Dundee, with a population of 3,200, spends and taxes as if it is a city of 25,000-plus. Trustees recently enacted a trash tax,...
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Another day, another shootingFeb 20, 2018 9:50 am - Another day, another school shooting. Seventeen dead in Florida. After their tools on the Supreme Court upended a century of settled law to create a phony "individual r...
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