Elmhurst Opinion
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Remembering Astor, Fudge and "everyone's dog'Dec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - A Friday-night trip to the animal hospital was not in our plans. But Fudge, our Boston Terrier, had abruptly keeled over, vomited, and seemed incapable of getting up. Be...
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Report Card results: Good, but familiar problems persistDec 12, 2007 10:00 pm - We continue to score a respectable B overall, but the areas in which we fare least well remain the same. It is a source of both encouragement and concern for us that th...
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How the Naperville grinches ruined Christmas. Or not.Dec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - OK, I was a bit disappointed when the note arrived from one of my editors. "Naperville didn't ruin Christmas, after all." We were in hot pursuit of this breathtaking sto...
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Don't use casino money for budgetDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - Is casino money the answer to the state's budget woes? Not according to economics professor John Kindt of the University of Illinois. His in-depth study concludes: for e...
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The good news John Drury never told you aboutDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - For a man whose bread always seemed to be buttered with cold, hard facts, anchorman John Drury was nourished by a much softer spread in the last 18 years of his life. La...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Teachers have no cause to complainNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - After reading all of the letters submitted by teachers, I am amazed that they seem to believe no one else takes their work home with them at night or works past their re...
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DuPage County Soap BoxNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - Gridiron glory Everything fell in place for Naperville North High School's football team to capture the 8A state championship last weekend over Glenbard North. We congra...
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Buffett is wrong about the estate taxNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Most of us, including myself, will never be affected by any federal estate tax sometimes called the death tax. However, Warren Buffett was off the mark, as reported in t...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...