Downers Grove Opinion
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Naperville's odd stance on alcoholOct 18, 2015 12:00 am - It seems like problems with alcohol are always raising their ugly heads before the Naperville City Council. Easily overlooked are the murder of a schoolteacher and the d...
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State's overreach on COD hurts community collegesOct 16, 2015 1:00 am - Forty years ago, I received an exceptional education at Harper College. Harper's small classes and dedicated, enthusiastic professors sparked my passion to learn and gav...
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Efficient government must be our focusOct 16, 2015 1:00 am - It's roundly accepted that Illinois needs to reduce its 7,000-plus units of local government to save taxpayers money and improve the delivery of services and infrastruct...
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Roskam shows how Washington's brokenOct 15, 2015 12:00 am - Want to know what's wrong with Washington? Listen to Peter Roskam in your Sept 30 article by Melissa Silverberg. Roskam called for a meeting of the GOP house caucus Tues...
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Other polluters must come to tableOct 14, 2015 12:00 am - Barbara Stark urges us to wake up to global warming because of seeing a polar bear so thin that his bones were visible while he was trying to walk on a very thin piece o...
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Editorial: Roles changing, mission the same for today's policeOct 11, 2015 11:00 pm - A host of highly publicized circumstances over the past year have focused attention on the behavior of police. They've also emphasized the police's changing roles. Daily...
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Socialized medicine is un-American?Oct 10, 2015 1:00 am - It's interesting that many of our Republican presidential candidates refer to Ronald Reagan as their idol. It was President Reagan who saw Medicare as the advance of soc...
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Caterpillar owed an Obama explanationOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - On Feb. 9, 2009, President Obama stood next to the CEO of Caterpillar in East Peoria. He was talking about his recovery program and what it meant to the workers of Cater...
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Time to wake up to global warmingOct 05, 2015 1:00 am - It was heartbreaking to see a picture of a polar bear so thin that his bones were visible while he was trying to walk on a very thin piece of ice, looking for food. When...
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Editorial: Follow DuPage's lead to streamline governmentOct 04, 2015 11:00 pm - Illinois is the land of plenty. We have plenty of debt, plenty of high taxes and plenty of businesses fleeing for other states, to go with a fat history of political cor...