Downers Grove Opinion
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Why don't Obama appointees pay taxes?Feb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Why do so many of President Obama's appointees have tax problems? Tom Daschle owed $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest to the IRS, and Nancy Killefer was hit ...
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Hey, did you hear the one about COD?Feb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - There was a time, I'm sure, when we wouldn't have dignified a rumor with a story. But times have changed. Rumors, gossip and innuendo have the ability to spread with the...
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End secrecy in the search processFeb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - The developer of Microsoft's innovative effort to put laptops on every desk in a classroom, Mark Mitrovich sounds like a good fit for superintendent of Naperville Unit D...
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Edward is making strides in PlainfieldFeb 10, 2009 10:00 pm - Amid extensive media coverage of Edward Hospital's multiyear odyssey to try to gain approval for a hospital in Plainfield, we don't want some important points to get los...
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Herald's outrage missing for Dist. 203Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm - Spare your readers the feigned indignation, Daily Herald. So the Daily Herald is upset about Warren Township's proposed 6% raise for its superintendent? Oh, please. Wher...
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Nitpicking shouldn't decide who winsFeb 07, 2009 10:00 pm - One is criticized for work that isn't neatly stapled. Another is scolded for forgetting to number pages on the homework. One had an answer right in several places, but t...
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Naperville Township heeds call for cutsFeb 06, 2009 10:00 pm - A Daily Herald editorial (Feb. 3) called upon the state of Illinois to "cut spending before increasing taxes." In Naperville Township, that is exactly what we have done,...
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1 board should hear COD objectionsFeb 06, 2009 10:00 pm - As a taxpayer in this district for more than 25 years, a former student of College of DuPage and parent of a COD alum, I am outraged at the establishment of two electora...
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Limbaugh is right on Obama agendaFeb 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Rush Limbaugh is taking a lot of heat for saying he hopes Obama fails. Many are shocked by that statement But, like Limbaugh, I hope Obama fails in accomplishing all the...
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GOP should adopt new theme: GOBFeb 06, 2009 10:00 pm - If the Federal Reserve can't unfreeze credit markets by cutting its discount rate to near 0 percent, What makes the GOP in Congress think that reducing income taxes will...