Downers Grove Opinion
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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...
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Blame for PARCC scores on test-makersOct 03, 2015 1:00 am - In the guest column by Ralph Martire "Many reasons for Illinois' weak PARCC results," partial blame is placed upon the constructors of the test. In fact most of the blam...
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40 years later, a reminder cops can be coolSep 25, 2015 11:00 pm - It was 8 p.m. or so on a weeknight. Nothing going on. So my friends and I decided it would be cool to pull into the parking lot of an elementary school, loiter, and see ...
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Teachings of Islam support ConstitutionSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - As a Muslim born and raised in America, I take serious issue with Ben Carson stating that Islam is antithetical to the Constitution. It is a pity that a highly educate...
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Editorial: The next step in local control of salariesSep 22, 2015 11:00 pm - Editor's Note: An earlier version of this editorial identified a $400,000 bonus that was to be paid to outgoing University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise but f...