Glen Ellyn Opinion
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Sin taxes should cover caffeine, sugarSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - With all the editorials I am reading about the November election, candidates and their fiscal problems, inadequate solutions, huge budget deficits, incompetent managemen...
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Help the community on Peanut DaySep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - On Friday and Saturday, our orange-vested volunteers from Kiwanis clubs will once again be seen on street corners and in front of local businesses handing out packages o...
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Palin must respond to the mediaSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - In less than two months we will be voting in the most important election in modern memory. With such critical issues as health care, the environment, the economy, and th...
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From glue pots to icons: 30 years in the newspaper bizSep 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirty years. For some, sadly, that's more than a lifetime. For me yesterday, it marked how long I've worked for the Daily Herald. So, please indulge a trip down newspap...
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End GOP refrain of 'God made me do it'Sep 16, 2008 11:00 pm - As a non-theist, I take seriously the religious beliefs of aspirants for high office. In twelve previous elections I followed from 1952 through 1996, religion, for the m...
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3 screw-ups aside, upping driving age might not be wiseSep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Was I ready to drive at age 16? On a cold, rainy February afternoon, the day I turned 16, I headed for the drivers license bureau to take the test. All I really remembe...
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Glen Ellyn clinic no favor to residentsSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The Glen Ellyn clinic construction is complete, but residents in the immediate neighborhood are still the victims of crowed streets, because employees park their cars he...
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Separate political fact from fictionSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Why publish "A Republican's view" by Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna under the pretense of news? Clearly it is opinion, and as such, should have appeared...
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Missiles of August: A sequel from RiceAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dim if any memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Just seven years old at the time, she may have learned of this brush wi...
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Day of Giving great way to battle apathy in troubled timesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Philanthropy, I'll bet, is on a downswing. People are struggling to pay for a tank of gas, food at the store and other essentials; how can they find money to give to ch...