Hanover Park Opinion
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Editorial: U-46's Nashville trip worth a board reviewJul 30, 2018 11:00 pm - When local governments talk about sending officials on trips to out-of-town conferences or for research, suburban taxpayers may reflexively think "junket" and reach for ...
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Editorial: Why are taxpayers still covering end-of-career pay boosts?Jun 13, 2018 11:00 pm - A few years ago, schools in the suburbs starting doing away with a perk that was patently unfair to taxpayers. Starting a few years before retirement, longtime teachers ...
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Collection for troops went well beyond expectationsMay 31, 2018 5:00 am - Recently our group, Help USA Troops, organized a collection and packing drive to send care packages to deployed troops. Our Northwest suburban community of helpers inclu...
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Editorial: The expensive risk College of DuPage has placed on taxpayersApr 28, 2018 2:00 pm - It was almost three years ago that we warned that the College of DuPage Board was risking the public's money in what we described as its "obsessive and oddly venomous" f...
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Editorial: New U-46 student trauma training important tool for teachersApr 08, 2018 11:00 pm - Imagine a child whose life is marked by daily trauma caused by poverty, abuse, neglect, divorce, mental illness or the loss of a parent. Now imagine how difficult it wou...
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Student activists embody the spirit of Marjory Stoneman DouglasFeb 28, 2018 10:00 pm - Student survivors of the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida are grieving. But they are also organizing. Within days of t...
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Include voices of students in debate on transgenderFeb 26, 2018 12:00 am - If you look through our high school yearbooks, we are probably not the students you would place together. One of us is a freshman; one is looking seriously at colleges t...
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Be careful about legalizing marijuanaFeb 03, 2018 12:00 am - Recent research indicates marijuana is not as safe as many people probably think. It may be that the legalization of medical marijuana gives people the impression that i...
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Senator should apologizeJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - I respect all military men and women who have served but I am beginning to resent junior Sen. Duckworth continually using her service and disablement to criticize others...
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Editorial: The importance of persistence in government consolidationJan 09, 2018 4:00 am - If there is one thing we learn about reform from watching government in Illinois, it is that persistence is a required ingredient for success. It took more than 20 year...