Elmhurst Opinion
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You must be frightened, or elseNov 26, 2010 10:00 pm - We are all treated to the new American panic, thanks to the cable networks and their time-filling efforts. I don't know the percentage involved but relatively few people...
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True America needs to stand upNov 25, 2010 10:00 pm - In response to George Kocan's Nov. 20 Fence Post letter entitled “Endorsement of civil unions flawed,” I have to take an opposing view that civil unions are not flawed, ...
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Quinn really needs to consider the voteNov 25, 2010 10:00 pm - The election is over, and Gov. Pat Quinn won, but he did so by less than 1 percent (20,000 votes). Quinn, with 47 percent of the votes, defeated Bill Brady, who received...
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Don't be touchy with airport pat-downsNov 25, 2010 10:00 pm - In response to the “Airport security too intimate?” article published on Nov. 16, I was astonished to read some of the public's reactions of the new regulations to tight...
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Latitude needed in prison marriagesNov 25, 2010 10:00 pm - In response to the Nov. 16 article, “Who would marry a killer?” I couldn't help but think about the struggles that these wives take upon themselves, knowing that it may ...
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Buckle down, U.N., on Haiti reliefNov 25, 2010 10:00 pm - Riots in Haiti are absolutely no reason that the United Nations should be delaying supplies to a country in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Doctors Without Borders ar...
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Spreading word on breathing ailmentsNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - November is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month, and as participants in pulmonary rehabilitation at Central DuPage Hospital, Edward Hospital, Elmhurst ...
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Phone book of future is unbalancedNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - I have seen an advance copy of DuPage County's 2019 phone directory. It's quite thick, as you might imagine, but the most striking difference between it and this year's ...
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By the time we got to Barnstock ... we were kinda oldNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - There was a great Top Ten list on Letterman some time ago. Names for an upcoming Rolling Stones tour: “Geezers with Guitars,” “Hey, You, Get Off My Barcalounger” and my ...
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A day to remember the whole story of life in the suburbsNov 23, 2010 10:00 pm - “You know what the news is,” to recall the late great Paul Harvey. “Now, you'll hear (pause) the rest of the story.” Actually, these chapters from the story of the subur...