Downers Grove Opinion
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Candidates: We need your e-mail addressesJan 29, 2009 10:00 pm - One hundred and one. Not dalmations; that's the number of local governments falling within our circulation area in DuPage County. Twenty nine school districts. Twenty tw...
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Humane group thanks volunteersJan 29, 2009 10:00 pm - In honor of the National Day of Service, held on January 19, 2009, Naperville Area Humane Society would like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers for all...
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Stimulus plan must make real impact nowJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Five hundred thousand jobs lost last month, the Dow Jones industrial average teetering at 8,000, and home prices continuing to plummet - to say our economy is in need of...
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Obama sets example on sunshine lawsJan 24, 2009 10:00 pm - On the heels of an administration that looked for reasons to refuse Freedom of Information Act requests, President Barack Obama started his first full day in office with...
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Snow kidding; I am not a litterbugJan 23, 2009 10:00 pm - As a 32-year resident of Lisle, I would like to share what happened while I was recently clearing my driveway. I live on Maple Avenue and have a double-wide driveway th...
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Remember pitfalls of Roe vs. WadeJan 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Thursday marked the 36th Anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. Seven men gave American women the right to legally kill their offspring. Since then...
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Nice of Obama to put in a plug for NeighborJan 22, 2009 10:00 pm - "The word 'neighborhood' starts with Neighbor because it indicates a sense that we, as Americans, are bound together and what we have in common is more important than wh...
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Rifle pointed at his head was least of his problemsJan 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Marni Pyke, our transportation writer and former Lisle reporter, was on her way to work Wednesday morning when she heard of the high drama at the Lisle Metra station. Sh...
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Fed up with taxes? Just move, some say.Jan 17, 2009 10:00 pm - In one of its Saturday editorials, the Daily Herald questioned the wisdom and economic timing of the Naperville Park District and School District 203 spending $750,000 o...
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Garden plot carping getting tiresomeJan 13, 2009 10:00 pm - It is getting tiresome to listen to the continuing carping of Naperville's garden plots supporters about the "unfairness" of the park district's reasonable compromise pl...