Glen Ellyn Opinion
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Prisoner swap: Gitmo to IllinoisJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - America needs to close its spectacularly successful terrorist recruiting tool in Guantanamo, and Illinois is $9 billion dollars in debt. Let's make a deal. The Land of ...
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It's all about a Dugan convictionJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm writing about my concerns over the pretrial hearings on the Brian Dugan case in DuPage County Judge George Bakalis' courtroom. I learned through a Daily Herald artic...
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Local law powers shouldn't match fedsJun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm a strong proponent of our system of checks and balances in government. That is why alarm bells went off when I learned that the Illinois Reform Commission was propos...
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Is a hole-in-one front-page news? Maybe in NeighborMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - This just in to the newsroom: Dave Patton of Naperville scored his first hole-in-one on May 22. He used a 5 iron on the 174-yard 7th hole of Course No. 1 at St. Andrews ...
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We have to raise state income taxMay 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Cutting state spending as a viable alternative to solving our state's budget shortfall is a myth we have a responsibility to dispel. No one can rationally argue that i...
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Beware scams on one-time gov. checksMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will be happy to know that issuance of the special one-time $250 American Recovery and Re...
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Eyebrow-raising use of taxpayer moneyMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Don Puchalski, in his May 13 letter to the editor (Complaint about fundraiser off base), is correct that the Democrats lacked victories in the 2009 consolidated election...
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To the driver who ran down baby geeseMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - On May 15, just shortly after noon, a speeding driver on Raintree Drive in Glen Ellyn killed three baby geese. Just east of the stop sign, which you probably didn't stop...
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Musings about Drew, contracts and Route 59May 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Some random thoughts from your friendly DuPage editor, a Friday Soapbox, if you will ... We're on the case In case you didn't notice, our coverage of the Drew Peterson ...
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When should we be giving a hand?May 19, 2009 11:00 pm - I understand giving a person a hand when it is needed, but when we as taxpayers are giving Section 8 privileges to two families (they are related) and those 2 families h...