Aurora Opinion
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Use coal and water to solve oil crisisJan 26, 2012 4:00 am - We can make substantial amounts of gasoline and other alkenes for industrial use from the very abundant reserves of coal and water especially in the western United State...
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Republicans have short memoriesJan 25, 2012 5:00 am - Republican candidates have forgotten recent history of 2000 to 2008 in which a Republican president put this country in two wars, passed legislation which supported the ...
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How are we better off than 3 years ago?Jan 25, 2012 5:00 am - It is a complete mystery to me how anyone could logically support the re-election of Obama or any of the leaders of the Democratic party. During the 3-4 years that the D...
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Legislators not much to write home aboutJan 25, 2012 5:00 am - With all utter disgust, I accuse those who have been elected by we the people have failed, plain and simple. Firstly, we have a Democrat hack who has pushed more taxatio...
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Two stories a study in contrastsJan 25, 2012 5:00 am - What a classic example of learning from the juxtaposition of two studies was presented on the Jan. 15 front page. On the one hand, we have a teenager, Nicole Krippinger,...
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News conference hardly transparentJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - Chris Lauzen, candidate for Kane County Board Chairman, announced Jan. 13 that he would hold a news conference on Jan. 17. I thought I’d go. I was stopped at the door by...
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Terrible ROI on Red Gate bridgeJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - Ask Mayor DeWitte why the taxpayers of St. Charles are paying $120,000 per person for only 500 direct beneficiaries using the Red Gate bridge? The first phase already se...
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Pols to blame for today’s pension woesJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - In response to Bill Zettler’s Jan. 18 letter, here are some additional facts: The state’s normal cost for pensions today is about 8 percent of payroll across the three l...
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Why so long to cancel lease, COD?Jan 24, 2012 4:00 am - A two-million-dollar thanks to reporter Christopher Placek for his eye-opening (or should I say wallet-opening) Jan. 20 news item announcing College of DuPage’s ending o...
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A horrific news week in the suburbsJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - If you just landed in the suburbs and looked at the front pages of our Wednesday and Thursday editions, you might have thought: What a horrific and dangerous place to li...