Bolingbrook Opinion
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Critics are wrong - the economy's strongJun 01, 2008 11:00 pm - There have been many letters to the Daily Herald recently blaming the Iraq War and President George Bush for a terrible economy and high gasoline prices. The Democratic ...
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Two standards on school plagiarismJun 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Plagiarizing Naperville Central High School principal Jim Caudill is apparently being reassigned for stealing the words of others when crafting a recent high school comm...
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Time to crack down on plagiarismMay 31, 2008 11:00 pm - He's always struggled with his grades, and now another big report is due. Knowing this could be the difference between failing the class or not, he cheats. He takes some...
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Good start toward better health careMay 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It was extremely encouraging last week to hear one of the members named to a board overseeing Cook County public health care telling commissioners directly that, in ess...
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Feeling our financial painMay 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In a move rarely seen by government at all levels this year, DuPage County Board members this week decided to freeze their pay for the next four years. They also cut sti...
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A little humanity in an increasingly heartless worldMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - If Jim Caudill weren't my friend. If I hadn't talked at length to the sister of a murder victim -- or to a friend of a man critically injured on his motorcycle. Perhaps,...
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage CountyMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Good luck, Judge Bakalis No one will deny DuPage Circuit Judge George Bakalis is earning his pay. He's already presiding over the arduous death-penalty murder case of Br...
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Take a northerly view of gas pricesMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - We import more oil from Canada than any other country. Mexico is third. Out of the top ten countries we get our oil from, only two are from the Middle East and we curren...
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Liberals give the inspiration to writeMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Krueger (Fence Post, April 13). Krueger implored, "Keep on writing those letters, Mr. Toye, and keep inspiring me and many more like me..." ...
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Why it's becoming more and more all about youMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The pitch that came to Assistant City Editor Anne Halston was probably not unlike hundreds she has gotten in her 13 years as an editor at the Daily Herald. It went somet...