Downers Grove Opinion
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Springbrook Prairie’s new status welcomeJul 17, 2012 2:35 pm - Springbrook Prairie’s new status welcome The River Prairie Group of the Sierra Club is thrilled to support the Forest Preserve Commission of DuPage County in their ...
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Editorial: The hidden victims of heroin abuseJul 17, 2012 5:00 am - For more than a decade we have chronicled the surge of heroin use in the suburbs by our youth and the tragic stories of suburban kids caught up in the scourge. We’ve tal...
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Campaign going to be a long 4 monthsJul 17, 2012 4:25 am - After watching David Axelrod on the CBS morning show I wanted to heave. On one attack he was making against Romney, the broadcaster said that “Fact Check” pointed out hi...
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DuPage hit hard two weeks ago, but pales compared to '96Jul 15, 2012 5:00 am - The framed, color reprint of the front page of our July 19, 1996, edition still hangs on the wall outside my office. The main story contains one of my all-time favorite ...
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Coolidge’s decisions will be based on factsJul 15, 2012 4:40 am - This fall voters have the opportunity to begin to break down the extremist political orthodoxy that crashed the economy in 2007-2008 and has been refusing to let it rest...
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It’s about time the middle class wakes upJul 14, 2012 4:16 am - Earlier this year when President Obama observed that the huge tax cuts for the wealthy were going to end next January, he added it’s about time the very rich started pay...
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Naperville trail a real success storyJul 11, 2012 4:28 am - Naperville trail a real success story Thank you for your recent articles about bicycle safety and trails. I see many happy users on the multiuse trails of DuPage Co...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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To judges go the leftovers; a Ribfest retrospectiveJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - In the already-sweltering Ribfest tent, Naperville Mayor George Pradel rose to his feet last Sunday and bellowed out the rib judges’ sacred oath: “I do solemnly swear to...
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Editorial: Shine a light on school chief searchesJul 03, 2012 5:00 am - Susan Hill has the right idea. So does Connie McElyea. And we’d like to see their suburban counterparts follow their lead. Hill is the board president of the Burlington ...