Downers Grove Opinion
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‘Promised land’ belongs to ChristiansOct 16, 2011 5:00 am - To answer an Oct. 6 Fence Post letter from Elizabeth Pearson of Elmhurst: The Palestinians have occupied Palestine for about 1,400 years. A large portion of the Jewish p...
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Why the free ride for electric cars?Oct 16, 2011 5:00 am - Streets and highways are maintained through a user fee of 19 cents per gallon of gasoline. But “electric” autos are powered by energy stored from converting coal or nucl...
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Corporations don’t want you to thinkOct 15, 2011 4:00 am - It’s interesting to me that after watching live webcams of thousands protesting against Wall Street in the wee hours of Sept. 6 (and witnessing police brutality of unarm...
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Government regs not source of job lossOct 15, 2011 4:00 am - Being a fair and open-minded liberal, I wanted to investigate the conservative Republican claims that government regulations have harmed job growth, so I investigated th...
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Conflicts in health care legislationOct 15, 2011 4:00 am - Three cases the Supreme Court might hear during its term that began Oct. 3 include President Obama’s health care act, the authority of local police to arrest illegal imm...
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Enrollment down, but tax rates upOct 15, 2011 4:00 am - With the state-required filing of student enrollment now in the books, we finally get a look at Indian Prairie Unit District 204’s numbers for 2011. To give you a very ...
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Someone should ask Sara Lee whyOct 12, 2011 5:00 am - Thank you for the paragraph in the Daily Herald, Oct 6, reporting of the sale of three of the five fresh bakery lines of the Sara Lee Corporation to a Mexican bakery lin...
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Wall St. protesters embody our angerOct 12, 2011 5:00 am - Who cares if the Occupy Wall Street protesters have no specific agenda? The point is that their growing numbers represent millions of Americans who realize that somethin...
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Marathoners have inspiring story to tellOct 12, 2011 5:00 am - Marathoners hear the quips all the time. They go something like this: “I get tired driving 26.2 miles, I don’t know how you can run that far.” And yet thousands do each ...
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Where’s the change we voted for?Oct 12, 2011 5:00 am - The trend since at least 1980 has been more and more wealth for the wealthy, whether individuals or corporations. Let’s look at where we are. Is the economy healthy? No...