Downers Grove Opinion
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Casten is right for 6th DistrictJun 30, 2018 1:00 am - A letter from Carol Wright suggested that Sean Casten is "wrong for the Sixth District" despite being nominated to run for the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrats...
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Sanders expulsion another case of liberal bigotryJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - So the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Sarah Sanders to leave her restaurant because of her political views. Yet another outrageous example...
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Immigration debate needs truthful data, not fear mongeringJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - If a person has the strength and resilience to travel over 1,000 miles while carrying their children with them, that is the kind of person I certainly want in my communi...
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Editorial: Getting help to distraught teens an issue that can affect anyoneJun 25, 2018 11:00 pm - This is the type of conversation we wish our politicians - national, state and local - had every day. And the fact that it was about helping struggling youth in the comm...
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Students' message: Get out the voteJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - On June 16 in Naperville, Marjory Stoneman Douglas students offered a concise message of REV, an acronym for Register, Educate and Vote. I believe the last step, Vote, w...
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Support efforts to assure vaccinationJun 18, 2018 1:00 am - One and a half million children die each year from diseases that could have been prevented by a vaccine. Shockingly, one in five children in the world lack access to the...
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Congressman cannot be believedJun 16, 2018 1:00 am - Time will tell how the new tax law will impact individual people but Peter Roskam's comments on the topic prove that he cannot be trusted to provide his constituents wit...
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Ten cheers for Title XJun 16, 2018 1:00 am - When Donald Trump first talked about making changes to Title X, the national family planning program that provides affordable birth control and reproductive health care ...
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A bipartisan success storyJun 15, 2018 1:00 am - Congressman Peter Roskam was ranked 25th out of 435 House representatives in the recent Lugar Center/Georgetown University nonpartisan ranking of the most bipartisan mem...
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Students need to have inclusive curriculumJun 15, 2018 1:00 am - "You can't be what you can't see" writes Marian Wright Edelman. As I reflect on this quote that we use in equity trainings with schools across the state, I think about m...