Gilberts Opinion
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Don't lose sight of bigger issueNov 13, 2009 10:00 pm - In your Oct. 14 front page article about Geneva consumer education teacher Dave Burk, who questioned public funding of a gay black man taking nude pictures of another ga...
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Saturday SoapboxNov 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Big Loser no more: Among the 800 runners and walkers in the sixth annual Cantigny 5K race in Wheaton was Julio Gomez, a contestant on this season's "The Biggest Loser" ...
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Don't downplay threat of fluNov 12, 2009 10:00 pm - On Oct. 29, WTTW ran a documentary of the WWI pandemic flu that swept the globe. It was a very sobering portrayal of the possibilities of sweeping death, with bodies in ...
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Fence Post writer has me all wrongNov 12, 2009 10:00 pm - Let a writer dare suggest that the mainstream media is no longer liberal, but in fact has a conservative bent, and angry rebuttals are sure to follow. That is the case w...
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We're Gen Y and we're here to helpNov 11, 2009 10:00 pm - To my fellow Gen Y-ers: We are living in a technological worId, and I am a 23-year-old technological girl. We are the Voice, er, the Keyboard of the Future. I believe my...
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Dzialo lauded for preparing playersNov 11, 2009 10:00 pm - My wife and I wanted to write on how disappointed we were with District 300 for removing Coach Jim Dzialo from the Jacobs High School soccer program. However, we have de...
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Don't add to flawed impressions of ElginNov 10, 2009 10:00 pm - Two steps forward, one back. I first noticed Elgin when I drove through 20 years ago headed somewhere else. Having grown up in one of the post-World War II suburbs that ...
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Not so fast on water bottlesNov 09, 2009 10:00 pm - Before West Dundee puts taxpayer money into a program to buy residents reusable plastic water bottles, which many voters may already own, there's still time to talk to I...
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Want to go 'green'? Support PaceNov 08, 2009 10:00 pm - I'm writing regarding Pace bus routes 616, 637, 690, 696 and 699. On Monday's (October 19th) meeting at Pace headquarters it was told how the R.T.A. was taking all funds...
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Of nativists and capitalistsNov 07, 2009 10:00 pm - A comment regarding Liz Parker Siebeck's Oct. 24 letter on Elgin's immigration policy. Nativism is that narrow, seemingly self-protective insistence that earlier immigr...