Aurora Opinion
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Tripling drivers license fee gallingNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - I heard that Springfield is going to increase the driver's license renewal fee from $10 to $30. What spectacular chutzpah these politicians have. They have emptied the s...
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History fair brought old Elgin aliveNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Recently one could find at the Pavilion in Lords Park a sense of what Elgin was like in the late 1800s. The Elgin History Fair, first designed for the city's sesquicente...
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No need to stifle technologyNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - I enjoyed Steve Aldrich's Oct. 22 post "Unhappy with Comcast upgrade" so much I thought I was writing it. I, too, went through the Comcast merry-go-round. After receivi...
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Dangers in our prisons?Nov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - I am writing in regard to an article written by Joseph Ryan in the Oct. 21 edition of the Daily Herald where he quoted George DeTella, a former assistant director of the...
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Library funding should be restoredNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois libraries are struggling to cope with an unprecedented increase in usage at the same time that funding for libraries is being reduced. The FY10 budget, passed b...
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No more herbicides on Prairie PathOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - I live with my husband and three young children directly south of the Illinois Prairie Path in Glen Ellyn. Since we moved here 10 years ago, we have had a birds' eye vie...
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Elgin erred when laying off MonellOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - I have been a resident of Elgin for the past 20 years. I read a recent article regarding the cuts in employees to help with the city's budget woes. Although I applaud th...
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Honduras trip a wasteful oneOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam's recent trip to Honduras was inappropriate. He met with current leader Roberto Micheletti, who was part of a military coup overthrowing a democra...
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Don't feel too bad for youth prisonersOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - I thought the recent report condemning the poor conditions at the Illinois Youth Prison the goofiest and most pointless report I've read since the last goofy report. Did...
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Learn from experience in H1N1 battleOct 31, 2009 11:00 pm - In Lake County, lines stretched for blocks, people stood in the rain for four hours and many seeking the H1N1 vaccine ultimately were turned away. To the south, in DuPag...