Bloomingdale Opinion
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Local newspaper critical to democracyMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - I commend the Daily Herald for encouraging and promoting voter participation. You encouraged readers to stay informed and vote. You promoted the elections by giving prom...
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Gun 'forum' had an obvious agendaMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - On April 21, the Wheaton League of Women Voters sponsored a so-called "forum" on "gun violence" which euphemistically was anything but a public forum. Instead, the meeti...
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A fifty-dollar lesson in patienceMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - "Patience is a virtue Possess it if you can. Sometimes found in women. Never in a man." More often, "Patience is its own reward." But not this time. My wife, Lillian, ha...
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Public barking back at Big ThreeMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Yes, that's correct - the Big Three have worn blinders for the past four decades and despite themselves gotten away with highway robbery. Now the result has come to roos...
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Why not a tax on pornography?May 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Our various American and European governments seem to be ready to clutch any straws floating by in the vast sea of deficits being handed down to future generations as a ...
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No surprise when property taxes go upMay 01, 2009 11:00 pm - With the first installment of our property tax bills due on June 1, the media has become eerily quiet with the pending crisis in DuPage County. Why? Because we all have ...
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Rest of the world isn't like NapervilleApr 30, 2009 11:00 pm - To the five sophomores from Naperville who wrote to the April 18 Fence Post regarding the current economic crisis, your grammar and sentence structure was impeccable. It...
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Transparency important in courtApr 29, 2009 11:00 pm - In a day when President Obama releases once-secret documents pertaining to harsh U.S. interrogation techniques and DuPage County government makes the payment of every bi...
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Tucker column off mark on guns, crimeApr 29, 2009 11:00 pm - In her April 20 column titled "We stand by as others are gunned down," Cynthia Tucker demonstrates how misinformed she is regarding guns and gun crime. She decries the "...
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A pork-laden mission to the moonApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - It is 1961, and President Barack Obama has thrown a challenge to the nation's space program. Put a man on the moon before the decade is out! Instantly, Nancy Pelosi fro...