Glendale Heights Opinion
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Consolidation bill a bipartisan effortJun 04, 2013 4:26 am - Consolidation bill a bipartisan effort Two years ago, DuPage County embarked on a mission to reduce the size, scope and cost of local government. After achieving so...
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Let’s push voting age back to 21Jun 03, 2013 4:40 am - Let’s push voting age back to 21 In its May 30 editorial, the Daily Herald calls for allowing 17-year-olds to vote. The reasoning: “An earlier voting age will engag...
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Focus, instead, on the pot growers?Jun 03, 2013 4:40 am - Focus, instead, on the pot growers? The Daily Herald has recently published several articles about the legalization of medical marijuana in good ol’ “Pay-to-play,” ...
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The SoapboxJun 01, 2013 5:00 am - Unsung benefactor: We’d love to thank the person who donated $95,000 to honor those who died in military service, but he or she wished to remain anonymous. The gift will...
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Journalists’ sense of right and wrongMay 31, 2013 4:40 am - Journalists’ sense of right and wrong If you deliver guns willy nilly into the hands of murderous Mexican drug dealers and thus contribute to the deaths of who know...
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Anxious for results of IRS probeMay 27, 2013 4:40 am - Anxious for results of IRS probe “The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts l...
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The SoapboxMay 25, 2013 5:00 am - What’s a chaparral? It’s the formal name for a roadrunner, silly. The bird, no doubt best known through its cartoon character, is not common to Illinois. It also has bee...
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Graffiti artists should refine talentsMay 24, 2013 4:40 am - Graffiti artists should refine talents Our car is stopped at the railroad crossing. The gates are down, lights flashing, bells ringing. Here comes a train. This tim...
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Do pols represent you or the NRA?May 24, 2013 4:40 am - Do pols represent you or the NRA? Those senators who voted against the bill expanding background checks for gun purchases are telling us that they are satisfied wit...
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$60,000 on a ‘Star Trek’ spoof?May 22, 2013 4:40 am - $60,000 on a ‘Star Trek’ spoof? I was appalled to learn that $60,000 of taxpayer dollars was spent on some spoofs, including a Star Trek spoof, made to “train” (ent...