Carol Stream Opinion
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Replace the income tax with a fair taxApr 16, 2008 11:00 pm - I heard a radio talk-show host talking about an idea that I initially thought was so off the wall as to be ludicrous. He was urging his listeners to buy a book and, intr...
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GOP is ruining the county, the countryApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - After reading the letter from Mike Davitt, I can't believe this guy really lives in Naperville or anywhere else in DuPage. Democrats don't spend, borrow and then tax us ...
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Greenberg is right for the 8th DistrictApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm writing today to commend Steve Greenberg, the Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th District. He recently conducted a tele-town hall that I participated in. T...
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Find better use of the word 'missing'Apr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - When did the word missing become a destination? In recent years government officials and the media often state that someone has "gone missing." To me that expression imp...
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Mr. President, don't build this wallApr 13, 2008 11:00 pm - I was dismayed to read that waivers, authorized by Congress, allowed our president to bypass 30 laws and regulations to speed up the building of a 670-mile fence along o...
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Higher priorities than Wrigley FieldApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I was born a few steps away at Illinois Masonic Hospital and as a young child grew up in the shadow of Wrigley Field. I am a lifelong Cub fan (even though I split White...
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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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Seek feedback on future of Cole HallApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's get feedback from the classmates, families and friends of the students killed and injured at Northern Illinois University to help us decide how to approach the Col...
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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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Important to read entire Adams quoteApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Theodore M. Utchen's letter quotes John Adams in order to denigrate religion: "Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out...