Carol Stream Opinion
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COD's better tomorrow starts todayJul 30, 2015 1:00 am - The College of DuPage must be better tomorrow than it is today. The board of trustees must instill and lead a daily orientation to academic excellence, institutional i...
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Editorial: The truths exposed in audio of College of DuPage buyout meetingJul 29, 2015 1:00 am - When one of our reporters asked College of DuPage Board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton about her comments in a closed-door board meeting on Dec. 18, she said she prefers to t...
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At last, some good news to discussJul 29, 2015 12:00 am - I live in an assisted living facility. Each morning at 9:30 a.m. someone reads the current Daily Herald out loud and we discuss its contents. This morning at breakfast w...
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Medicaid expansionaffordable?Jul 25, 2015 6:13 am - Medicaid expansion affordable? It is good to see that Dr. Jay Shannon, CEO of Cook County Health and Hospitals System, feels that the benefits of Medicaid expa...
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It's really human harvestingJul 24, 2015 12:00 am - The more disgusting something is, the more flowery its name. For example, Hitler's extermination of six million Jews was called the "Final Solution." What problem did th...
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Pols playing with pension money?Jul 22, 2015 12:00 am - As the Illinois State Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that pension shall not be diminished as the Constitution states, then why are these politicians allowed to pl...
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Can't keep guns from troubled peopleJul 21, 2015 12:00 am - South Carolina has done the right thing in taking down the Confederate flag and retiring it in a museum for future generations to view as a piece of history. At issue i...
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Response to Iran deal is pure politicsJul 18, 2015 1:00 am - What the GOP is really afraid of is that the deal that the U.S., the U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany struck with Iran will work and history will remember Preside...
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Cuts will be painful but they're necessaryJul 17, 2015 1:00 am - We hear a lot about Gov. Rauner on TV, radio and in the press being blamed for the budget impasse in Springfield, how he hates poor people and so forth. The shadow gover...
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Obama not so lame after allJul 17, 2015 1:00 am - Considering the recent successes by the Obama administration, it seems as if President Obama is redefining the term "lame duck." Keep it going, Mr. President. Carol Hone...