Elmhurst Opinion
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Pols to blame for today’s pension woesJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - In response to Bill Zettler’s Jan. 18 letter, here are some additional facts: The state’s normal cost for pensions today is about 8 percent of payroll across the three l...
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Why so long to cancel lease, COD?Jan 24, 2012 4:00 am - A two-million-dollar thanks to reporter Christopher Placek for his eye-opening (or should I say wallet-opening) Jan. 20 news item announcing College of DuPage’s ending o...
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A horrific news week in the suburbsJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - If you just landed in the suburbs and looked at the front pages of our Wednesday and Thursday editions, you might have thought: What a horrific and dangerous place to li...
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Fertilized egg being called a child?Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am - James Finnegan’s letter (Fence Post Jan 13) praising Ireland for not allowing mothers to kill their children is an outrageous, deliberately emotive, distortion of the En...
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This plan requires no sacrificeJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - I do not want to broadly paint my conservative/Tea Party friends as being unwilling to sacrifice to “save the Republic.” Most I know are sincere and concerned about the ...
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The past is still with us in the presentJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - Is it just me, or did anyone else find the picture in the Jan. 17 edition of the Daily Herald accompanying the article on Page 2 regarding the honoring of Dr. Martin Lut...
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Stand up against Christian persecutionJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - In all the countries they live, the Christians are the most law abiding citizens and most productive workers. In spite of this they are targeted for persecution. In our ...
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More unneeded regulation?Jan 21, 2012 4:00 am - Regarding the article on regulation of pedestrian crossings at train tracks, I’d like to offer two comments. First, I fail to see how this restriction on individual beha...
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Too late to make nice with Ron Paul campJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - Two interesting news bits came out of the mouths of Republican leaders Sarah Palin, after the Iowa contest, mentioned that the GOP needed to start making nice with the R...
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We’ll soon know truth of cruise ship sinkingJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - As we read of the loss of the Italian Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, I am reminded of the loss of another Italian passenger liner, the Andrea Doria, with 3,000 souls aboa...