Elmhurst Opinion
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Winfield mailer was hardly 'anonymous'Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - On June 1, the Daily Herald ran a Fence Post letter from Rock Rocket: "Why an anonymous mailing in Winfield?" The fact is, it wasn't anonymous, and how anyone could mak...
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Average teacher pension is $40,000Jun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - This letter is in response to Al Palash, who questioned my use of the average teacher pension of $40,000 in the state of Illinois as "distorting the facts" in my origina...
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Soapbox: Actions speak louder than wordsJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Actions speak louder than words: Go ahead, Cook County commissioners, and express your outrage over Arizona's immigration law with your vote to boycott businesses from t...
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BP waiting for government to actJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama was once extolling green energy and alternate sources of energy instead of oil. He then did a quick reversal and announced that we will start drilling of...
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Call out Alexi on Kirk attack adsJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - In the contest for U.S. Senate, Alexi Giannoulias has repeatedly misrepresented Mark Kirk's positions in order to distract voters from his own record. Giannoulias says ...
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Government is not working for usJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Charles Robin III, a fifth generation shrimper on the Louisiana coast, was recently quoted in Time magazine, "Katrina dug a hole for us. We're laying in this grave, tryi...
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No excuse for delays to reopen preservesJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - The DuPage County Forest Preserve has closed Mallard Lake Forest Preserve for the past year in order to make improvements and allegedly to allow the use of heavy equipme...
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Message for driver who killed dogJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - On Tuesday afternoon, May 25, a driver traveling east on East Elm Street in Wheaton struck and killed my nephew's dog. The dog, Meeko, was accidentally let out by a frie...
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Navistar officials didn't want to testifyJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - The concerned citizens from all around DuPage County who spoke up to stop the giveaway of four acres of our forest preserve land along with an uncapped number of heavy i...
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In pursuit of the almost famous in the suburbsJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Pop quiz time. Q. What do Glenn Kotche, Don Schulze, Keith Hackney and Mark Gorski have in common? (Though possibly true for some of you, the answer I'm looking for is n...