Elburn Opinion
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Imagining legislators on election stumpAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Imagine a current Illinois lawmaker, campaigning to run again, speaking to a large gathering of his constituency: "I come to you today with a heavy and humble heart in a...
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Branches always test mettle of the othersAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - The Aug. 14 reply by David Shroder to my letter about executive privilege tries to change the subject. Congress sought access to the administration's decision-making pr...
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Weighing future of 'Munster mansion'Aug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - The home at 405 S. Seventh St. in St. Charles, a stunning Victorian style built in the 1890s, and the former Zimmerman home at the opposite corner have stood as twin pil...
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Metra needs money to keep runningAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - So ridership keeps going up on Metra and more and more suburban commuters are opting for trains rather than cars in this era of high gas prices and increasing road conge...
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Soapbox: This aud-it do it in Dist. 303Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - A very good idea has emerged in the St. Charles school district, where officials have instructed auditors doing their annual work to break down and report specifically h...
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Skip 'race game' on illegal immigrationAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - The immigration debate in Carpentersville is becoming simply ridiculous. Residents of the village who are attempting to stop crimes linked with the flood of illegal alie...
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Soapbox: Sickening swims; benefits of publicity?Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Anybody but us think it shouldn't take an Illinois Department of Public Health warning to know it isn't wise to let pets cavort in human swimming pools? Yet some pet lov...
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Wanted by disillusioned public: leadersAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - While candidates and pundits wonder endlessly if a presidential wannabe is black enough or woman enough, too Mormon, too liberal or too conservative, voters and taxpaye...
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It is about money, and using it on kidsAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - It is about money, and using it on kids "It's not about the money." Those are words of District 303's new superintendent. Let's hope that's not an indication of his per...
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Emotion, conflict help put life in budget storiesAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Budget stories always present a quandary for newspapers. On one hand, tracking how governments spend tax money is one of the most important things we do in a democracy....