Downers Grove Opinion
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Compliments for skateboard videoSep 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Compliments for skateboard video Excellent journalism from Paul Michna through his video pieces focusing on the state fair and skateboarding ("Once a skater, always a sk...
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Services of Planned Parenthood neededSep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - I'm glad to see Planned Parenthood will soon be opening a new clinic in Aurora. We need their services, from counseling and sex education, to birth control information a...
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Wouldn't Betty Loren-Maltese Memorial Tollway be more apt?Sep 09, 2007 11:00 pm - You wouldn't name the Brookfield Zoo after Michael Vick, the official canine exterminator of the NFL. O'Hare International Airport isn't going to be renamed for the mayo...
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Daily Herald wrong about home pricesSep 08, 2007 11:00 pm - As I read the newspaper on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 1, I nearly choked on my coffee as I read the headline, "Home prices on rise". I thought to myself, you have go...
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Soapbox: Get tribute to fallen soldier doneSep 07, 2007 11:00 pm - In the course of reporting the effort to get a Warrenville post office renamed for Jeffrey Allen Williams a number of points became apparent. First, Williams died for h...
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Soapbox: Circle talks can live onSep 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Aurora's Study Circles program officially disbanded last week, a decade after it was formed to promote diversity awareness. In the end, leaders said it was too hard to c...
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Cycling commuters have opened our eyesSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - For those who drive to work, it may not be surprising that the Chicago area clocks in some of the highest average travel times to work in the nation. In a 2005 ranking o...
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Proposals that threaten the U.S.Sep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Proposals that threaten the U.S. Have you ever heard of the "North American Union"? Neither did I until earlier this year. Have you ever heard of the "NAFTA Superhighway...
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Small price to avoid big problemAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Yes, $90,000 is a lot of money, as Aurora Ald. Rick Lawrence notes. But it pales in comparison with, say, a potential $9 million lawsuit, as Mayor Tom Weisner also notes...
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Fire hookup too costly for condosAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Recently the village of Lisle adopted a life safety code mandate that will require all multiple family dwellings within the village to be directly hooked up to the local...