Downers Grove Opinion
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The need to boost financial literacyNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - You may have seen the TV ad: A boy walks home carrying an enormous rocket pop, and Dad asks him where his new bike is. The boy sheepishly raises his treat and says, “I t...
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Park award just beginning of processNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - We recently received some very good news. After nearly a year of hard work on the part of our entire staff and a formal hearing before the Commission for Accreditation o...
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Too bad Cain scandal will do him inNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - The Cain sexual harassment debacle will by its media presence, botched initial response and recently named victim sink his political future. Sensationalist lawyer Gloria...
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Kids need to spend more time outdoorsNov 09, 2011 3:00 am - Last month during Great Outdoors America Week, I was fortunate enough to team up with the Sierra Club and fly to Washington D.C. to let our elected officials know that c...
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Why hasn’t Naperville published report?Nov 09, 2011 3:00 am - At a recent Naperville City Council meeting, Councilman Grant Wehrli explained to Kim Bendis why she was ejected from the Oct. 18 council meeting. Ms. Bendis had made a ...
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Join the call to ‘drill, drill, drill’Nov 08, 2011 4:00 am - A recent letter writer seemed to suggest that because we had an oil spill in the gulf, a leak in an underground pipe during a fracking process in Pennsylvania, and a sli...
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Partnership can save millions of dollarsNov 07, 2011 4:00 am - Due to concerns over rising juvenile crime in the 1990s, counties acted quickly to mitigate this public safety threat by constructing juvenile detention facilities to ho...
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Stop the presses! It’s Tea Party, not tea partyNov 06, 2011 7:00 am - Let me announce that from this day forward, it is the Tea Party. Not the tea party. At least in the Daily Herald, where we made the decision to depart from The Associate...
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Corporate greed day of reckoning at handNov 06, 2011 5:00 am - The occupation of Wall Street demonstrations are continuing to expand and spread throughout the country and beyond our national borders. They appear to have legs, strong...
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Does the right see no clues here?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In response to Martin J. Uttich’s Nov. 2 Fence Post letter (Does the left see no clues here?) on our energy policy (more drilling), let’s see. Per one report on fracking...