Hanover Park Opinion
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A good deed gone bad in WheelingNov 14, 2011 4:00 am - I live in a condo complex in Wheeling. I spent a good part of yesterday picking up fliers from Wheeling High School promoting a canned food drive. They were everywhere -...
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Property tax appeals futile, painfulNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - Recently I received my property tax bill. Of course it went up a lot, and I decided to take a day off and drive over to Skokie to the Cook County, rather Crook County, a...
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Lenin: Capitalism’s ruin is taxationNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - It would seem foolhardy that our political leaders here and around the world see more taxes upon more taxes as a way to get us out of the financial chaos that spending b...
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Service on flights in a downward spiralNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - Though flying in the 1960s was a great experience, I am not naive enough to assume that the normal coach traveler will ever get back to that type of treatment from any c...
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Charities have burdens enoughNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - You have heard it said that instead of the government giving aid to the people, we should let the churches and nonprofits take care of social services. But that is just ...
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Hospital support much appreciatedNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - On behalf of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council and its DuPage County member hospitals, I would like to commend the DuPage County Board for passing a resolution...
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Why didn’t 11/11/11 news run on Page 11?Nov 13, 2011 5:00 am - Surely you could have found a way to print the balance of this great article on Page 11 instead of Page 12, right? Isn’t also ironic that it takes 11 letters to spell “...
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Lombard foreign correspondent’s career winds downNov 13, 2011 4:00 am - The final paragraph of Army Lt. Matt Spartz’s Veterans Day column, I told him, put a lump in my throat first time I read it. It said: “But most of all, we honor our fall...
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Can COD and Glen Ellyn reach a compromise?Nov 12, 2011 11:00 pm - With the acrimony as high as it’s been between leaders with the College of DuPage and the village of Glen Ellyn, it probably should have come as no surprise that each si...
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School bus seat belts a missing safety pieceNov 12, 2011 5:00 am - A recent article mentioned that Secretary of State Jesse White wants to change the motorcycle helmet laws for adolescent riders. I agree that children younger than 18 wh...