Elmhurst Opinion
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How the pop star got top billing over the journalistJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - On this hand, a respected journalist; on that, a world-renowned music star. To me, the choice of which one people would most want to read about was a virtual no-brainer...
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Shameful denial of a deserved tributeJun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Five years have passed, but shame on Bensenville Village President John Geils and the village of Bensenville still exists. Sgt. Richard W. Mosher, a retired former dep...
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Name floods like we do hurricanesJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - We name hurricanes so that we can easily identify the event. Who doesn't know immediately what Katrina was all about? But what about just a plain old huge flood? I sugg...
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Tickets an easy source of revenueJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Ms. Sterba of Bensenville's letter on June 9 was given the headline "Mad about parking ticket in Arlington." She was given a ticket while parked in the parking garage on...
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Put a Metra station at county complexJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Put a Metra station at county complex I would like a logical explanation why Metra does not put a train station at the DuPage County complex in Wheaton. With the thousa...
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Roskam has way to get people involvedJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - In retirement I have found that I have more time to follow my passion for politics. I now read the newspaper, research legislation online and try to participate actively...
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Saturday Soapbox: DuPage CountyJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiscally irresponsible graffiti Paper signs in the men's restrooms at the DuPage County courthouse remind gentlemen to flush urinals. However, several of the signs have ...
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Getting off the Soapbox to look at the rest of the storyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Actual corporate e-mail chain revealing the inner workings of the Daily Herald and its DuPage editor: (Editorial Page Editor John Zimmerman to Jim Davis): "Hi, Jim…Would...
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Nuances of passion sometimes are key to deciding story playJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Prominent trials are followed passionately by some people -- but not all. It was a reasonable enough question for a wife to ask her husband three days before a high scho...
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Not the kind of change we needJun 09, 2008 11:00 pm - I cannot believe that four of our senators have voted against keeping English as our national language. Leading this is Clinton and Obama! How many of our sacred traditi...