Downers Grove Opinion
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If a shooting occurs and no one hears, does anyone care?Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - What if the police write a press release -- about, say, the shooting of three people in town -- but don't send it to the press? Does anyone care? About 150 people cared ...
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There's another site for new schoolOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Are District 204 tax payers willing to pay over $16 million more for the dirt on which our new high school will be built? A jury has decided that the Brach-Brodie land w...
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Planned Parenthood serves vital functionOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to Dean Schroeder of Sugar Grove in his Sept. 26 letter, America and the Planned Parenthood organization are very much awake and not anchored in Victorian ti...
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Even for maligned marathon, half-full glass close at handOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - If the Cubs could hit with men on base, the clear failings of this year's marathon would have been relegated to a front-page footnote. For the purposes of this column, I...
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Requiring ID to vote is a good ideaOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - I think it is time for Daily Herald writer Cynthia Tucker to enter the real world. She recently wrote a column railing against the federal government's plan to requir...
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Blackwater ran deep and dark for years on current fearOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - "Gentlemen, welcome to Baghdad." That was the announcement that came over the jetliner's loudspeaker as we landed in Iraq. The captain rightly used the word "gentlemen" ...
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Young journalists point to hopeful futureOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - In terms of business success, these are rugged days for newspapers. Any cursory look into business digests, stock tables or advertising-revenue trends will tell you that...
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Mother, baby are victims of abortionOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - All human beings begin life in exactly the same manner. Once an egg and sperm unite, a new genetic package, 23 chromosomes from each parent, with its own distinct DNA, i...
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Next year not hereOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Summer refuses to leave, but Wrigley Field's boys of summer are just a memory. No sooner does anthem-singer Wayne Messmer remind the sweltering Wrigley Field hopeful tha...
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Hillary Clinton isn't a DemocratOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, is running for president. God help the Democrats and the Democratic Party. Hillary grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood in a m...