Bloomingdale Opinion
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Volunteer options at Giving DuPageDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Thank you, Daily Herald, for your Dec. 9 front-page coverage of the increasing needs of our nonprofit organizations and the need for volunteers in our community. As a c...
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Dickens comments ring true todayDec 15, 2008 10:00 pm - The Cryptoquote in the Daily Herald on Dec. 5 could not have been more timely. Charles Dickens said, "A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarant...
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Should have taken stand before electionDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - To: Senator Richard Durbin, Your request to George Bush to spring George Ryan from jail smacks of everything I and my husband voted against when we voted for 'change' u...
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Obama whistling a new 'change' tuneDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - The past two years Obama has talked about one thing: Change. With soaring rhetoric he positioned himself as the candidate of "change" branding his opponents as retrograd...
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9,637 text messages: A Glen Ellyn affair to rememberDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Did they do anything wrong? Or perhaps the question would be better-phrased - wrong enough to warrant firing or a demotion? The attempted firing, then aborted demotion o...
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Big 3 lessons started after World War IIDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - The demise of our American auto industry has long been a ticking time bomb created by the aftereffects of World War II. When that war came the Big Three and independent ...
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Let's not fail our animal friendsDec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Please, let us not fail our animal friends again - they cannot speak for themselves so we must act on their behalf. For quite some time now, Pet Rescue in Bloomingdale ...
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First-time author grateful to libraryDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - In this Thanksgiving season, I offer belated gratitude to Schaumburg Township Public Library. This thanks is for stocking my first and maybe only book, "Planet Hibernia ...
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Fees for rescue services wrongDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - There's something troubling about the Wheaton City Council's decision to allow the local fire department to bill for special rescue services. Fire officials in that city...
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Enforce recycling in Hanover ParkDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - In the town of Hanover Park people have the privilege of being able to recycle, but not all of the community recycles everything that should be recycled. Recycling shoul...