Carol Stream Opinion
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Students should register to voteDec 25, 2007 10:00 pm - College students: listen up! The deadline to register to vote in the Feb. 5 primary election is Jan. 8. Now that many college students are home for winter break, this is...
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Thanks to mayor for holiday displayDec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - I just want to say thank you to Carol Stream Mayor Frank Saverino. On a recent trip to the Carol Stream village hall I saw a Christmas tree decorated with candy canes an...
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I'll go ahead and say it: 'Christmas'Dec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Warning: If you are politically correct, please skip this column. This is a story about Christmas. I figure it's OK for me to actually write that word Christmas since it...
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Republicans have mismanaged budgetDec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Republicans have mismanaged budget Has the DuPage County board forgotten the Republican play book? Isn't the cure for every thing a tax cut? The voters of DuPage county ...
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Intelligent design, and not evolutionDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - It was interesting to read the AP article that ran in the Daily Herald, "Women built to have baby on board". Your headline got it right but the scientists in the article...
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Saturday Soapbox: Toothless censureDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - On Tuesday, the Naperville City Council voted to censure fellow Councilman Richard Furstenau. Council members cited a history of disrespectful behavior toward city staf...
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Death of 'everybody's grandmother' a tough but essential storyDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - What if you had to write the obituary on your own grandmother? With all due respect to Rose Tani's family, that's almost the situation we had in this newsroom when the n...
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Let public transit pay its own wayDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Over the last few months, the politicians in Springfield have been holding "special sessions" to budget supplemental funding for the CTA, Pace and Metra to cover their o...
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Iowa series put presidential politics in suburban contextDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - We know what's happening in Iowa can be relevant in the suburbs and has connections to suburban interests. I often think of the Daily Herald in a phrase similar to the c...
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Cut county budget before raising taxesDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - If I ran my business in the way DuPage County manages this county, I would be bankrupt! I personally would never support a tax increase until I see the some of the dooms...