Downers Grove Opinion
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Join the campaign for new capital billApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - I am proud to announce that I have been appointed to the steering committee of the Illinois Works Coalition, a new bipartisan public/private partnership made up of busin...
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RTA does well to keep pressure on for capital planApr 19, 2008 11:00 pm - No one denies the need for a capital projects budget in Illinois. The lingering question has been whether state political leaders can stop squabbling long enough to find...
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Saturday Soapbox: Just in time for springApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Naperville residents have complained for years about unkempt vacant lots in developing neighborhoods. The city got around to what appears to be a resolution this week wi...
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Why it might really pay to be lucky rather than goodApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - I think I first heard the expression on the golf course. A guy skulls a short pitch shot. Instead of a highly lofted shot that lands softly on the green, it takes off li...
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Dist. 204 continues with bad decisionsApr 17, 2008 11:00 pm - The last six months has been littered with the Indian Prairie Unit District 204 School Board's abandonment of the only third high school site ever supported by the voter...
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Not acting in the spirit of democracyApr 16, 2008 11:00 pm - While democratic procedures may have been followed at the Downers Grove Township Annual Meeting of April 8, my experience is that the spirit of democracy was not. Those ...
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Lawmakers showed courage in votesApr 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Last November, the DuPage County Board was forced to increase the property tax levy in order to ensure critical public safety and human service programs were able to ope...
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Untimely pay raises for mayor, trusteesApr 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Raising the pay of local elected officials can be a tricky subject. In the first place, most elected officials don't get into community leadership for the money, and tha...
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Saturday Soapbox: 27 years later, a family remembersApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - There's no statute of limitations on murder or, as one family showed us this week, love. The victim of random violence, John Spoors was gunned down in 1981 outside an Ad...
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Taxpayers, pluck these dandelionsApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Instead of Saturday's headline, "Democrats popping up like daffodils," a more descriptive simile would have been: "Democrats, and their close Illinois RINO (Republicans ...