Bolingbrook Opinion
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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...
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Why does U.S. treat churches differently?Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Cult religions are unacceptable to the citizens of the USA if they involve polygamy or residential compounds. However, if a religion has a pastor who spews hatred and r...
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Taxpayers, pluck these dandelionsApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Instead of Saturday's headline, "Democrats popping up like daffodils," a more descriptive simile would have been: "Democrats, and their close Illinois RINO (Republicans ...
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Chronicling elusive standard of judgment by 'content of character'Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: Sometimes the news is its own object lesson. Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Krone worked for a week and a half to find and interview suburbanites who c...
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Religion, politics an unsettling mixApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Both Barack Obama and John McCain have suffered embarrassment by religious leaders who support their political aspirations. Presidential candidates are required to prov...
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Failed land deal isn't a crushing blowApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - It didn't seem like Batavia and Mooseheart ever got to the point where Howie Mandel would have to ask "Deal or No Deal?" As time passed, it became less likely that Batav...