Downers Grove Opinion
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Not less government, better governmentDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - President Reagan had it mostly right: government is not the solution. What’s needed, however, is not less government but better government. Civil rights should not be ab...
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COD deannexation a terrible decisionDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - The College of DuPage board made a terrible decision when it voted to deannex from the village of Glen Ellyn. If these seven board members had more wisdom, experience an...
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‘Potentiality’ is just a diversionDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Theodore Utchen, in the Dec. 1 Fence Post argued against a previous writer, Dan Rak, who logically equated abortion to murder, by writing, “My position turns on the conc...
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Arends doesn’t get respect she deservesDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Your article was too kind. If you noticed, while T.L. Arends was speaking the trustees had the “who cares” look on their face, which carried over to the time residents w...
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Bartlett voters can write their own endingDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - After I attended the last Bartlett village board meeting Dec. 6, I came home and tried to relax with my family. We were watching “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” and tha...
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Regis, roadwork tip of iceberg for DH internDec 11, 2011 4:00 am - Pop quiz. Q. Name the legendary Daily Herald journalist who contributed to these sections of Friday’s print editions: News, Neighbor and Time out! A. It’s intern...
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Thanks for help with rail trainingDec 10, 2011 4:00 am - On behalf of Milton Township and Milton Township CERT (Citizen Emergency Response Team), we would like to thank all of the first responders that participated in this yea...
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The SoapboxDec 10, 2011 4:00 am - Winter’s onset: Want some good news about the onset of winter? OK. Just a minute. It’s coming. Uh ... Less than an inch ... . . . of snow. And the fifth-latest time in ...
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‘Potential’ life argument is nonsenseDec 10, 2011 4:00 am - In reply to the Dec. 1 letter to the editor “Abortion about ending potential life” from Theodore M. Utchen: Mr. Utchen wrote that a fetus in the womb is a “potential hum...
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Easy fix for Illinois map messDec 10, 2011 4:00 am - The new Illinois congressional remap, devised by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, looks like cutouts prepared and pasted into place by kindergarten children. It...