Bolingbrook Opinion
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Change that would be bad for AmericaApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama boast that they will bring "change" and that they will unify the country if elected. I agree with them that they will bring "change," bu...
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Join the campaign for new capital billApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - I am proud to announce that I have been appointed to the steering committee of the Illinois Works Coalition, a new bipartisan public/private partnership made up of busin...
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RTA does well to keep pressure on for capital planApr 19, 2008 11:00 pm - No one denies the need for a capital projects budget in Illinois. The lingering question has been whether state political leaders can stop squabbling long enough to find...
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Saturday Soapbox: Just in time for springApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Naperville residents have complained for years about unkempt vacant lots in developing neighborhoods. The city got around to what appears to be a resolution this week wi...
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Why it might really pay to be lucky rather than goodApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - I think I first heard the expression on the golf course. A guy skulls a short pitch shot. Instead of a highly lofted shot that lands softly on the green, it takes off li...
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Dist. 204 continues with bad decisionsApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - The last six months has been littered with the Indian Prairie Unit District 204 School Board's abandonment of the only third high school site ever supported by the voter...
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Bully tactics used to oppose school siteApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - How many times do we talk with our children about how to deal with bullying? It's a life lesson we've all been touched by in one way or another. We try to give them exam...
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Lawmakers showed courage in votesApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Last November, the DuPage County Board was forced to increase the property tax levy in order to ensure critical public safety and human service programs were able to ope...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...