Batavia Opinion
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Kane shortchanging mentally illSep 18, 2008 11:00 pm - On Aug. 25, the Kane County Community Development Block Grant staff held a public hearing on the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report. This report descr...
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'Do not call' until you give out numberSep 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has smoothly avoided the FCC's Do Not Call List on unwanted telephone solicitations. Obama encouraged millions...
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Too bad Obama can't pull it offSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I know this is going to tick a lot of people off, but I am sticking my neck out to say: Obama is going to lose. In fact, I will go so far as to say he does not stand a c...
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Palin's politics smack of failureSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Watching Sarah Palin's speech last night was validation that John McCain plans to run his campaign with the same approach used by George W. Bush. He plans to stoke our f...
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Local government shouldn't competeAug 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Susan Sarkauskas wrote a very good article in Sunday's paper. I hope she will write some follow-ups. For example: When we moved to Batavia over 20 years ago, it took two...
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'Final Salute' a must readAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Remembering the brave and the stories of men who choose to be soldiers for our country is sensitively told in this must-read book, "The Final Salute." A Pulitzer Prize ...
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Lessons to learn from library disputeAug 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The thought of a heated legal battle regarding close to 1,600 acres is not something one would expect to entangle two area library boards. Consider that it's been going ...
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No new speed law; just tax speedersAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Many legislators have talked about passing laws to return to a national speed limit of 55 mph. This is supposed to save gas and help the pressure placed on the supply we...
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Blagojevich lets Illinoisans downAug 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Every time you think the performance of our state government has hit bottom with its political gamesmanship and partisan gridlock, our governor proves yet again that he ...
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage County and Fox ValleyAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Time for an explanation: The wall of silence Naperville's park district board has created around recently hired executive director Daniel Betts' sudden "leave of absence...