Downers Grove Opinion
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How our schools excel while failing the examOct 30, 2011 5:00 am - Our children’s schools are failing. More so than ever. That’s the message being conveyed if you look strictly at the data of the 2011 report card for all schools in Illi...
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Evil results from a lack of GodOct 29, 2011 5:07 am - A few thoughts for Joe Bauer (“If God’s so loving, then why the mess?”) on Oct. 18: Joe, God is loving and he did not create this mess. To explain, let’s go back in hist...
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Stop politics as popularity contestsOct 29, 2011 5:07 am - Political debates are a ruse orchestrated by the mainstream media for their own benefit. I am fed up with he said-she said politics that are prompted by the hosts to see...
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Enough meddling with dictatorshipsOct 29, 2011 5:07 am - Nations that are dictatorships transfer power through the violent overthrow of their dictator. This is the natural course of events for dictatorships. We and the United...
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Lower drinking age can solve problemsOct 29, 2011 5:07 am - Its 7 a.m., you’re having breakfast, pick up you newspaper and once again there’s an article about a teenager getting him/herself in trouble caused by underage drinking....
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The SoapboxOct 29, 2011 5:00 am - Bad moves, good move: Gov. Pat Quinn made a calculated political move in removing from the tollway board the one outspoken critic of spending, former Waukegan Mayor Bil...
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Teen alternatives to jail good for allOct 28, 2011 5:00 am - It’s not every day that a state legislature working to trim the budget could be making life much better for those on whom we traditionally have spent a lot of money. But...
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Costs should drop in sentencing juvenilesOct 28, 2011 5:00 am - A revision in state law regarding sentencing of juvenile offenders should not burden local officials and likely will result in cost savings for taxpayers. The law descri...
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Do the math on teacher pensionsOct 27, 2011 5:00 am - I’m responding to Cindy Klickna’s Oct. 24 comments titled “Don’t blame public workers for woes.” Now keep in mind that she is the President of the Illinois Education Ass...
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Here are some reasons to ‘Occupy’Oct 27, 2011 5:00 am - Why Occupy? Does it seem silly that a grown man living a comfortable lifestyle would be seen standing at a busy intersection in an upscale neighborhood holding a sign sa...