Lisle Opinion
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District 200 fight could cost us allMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - It's our money. Not to mention our kids. That's a short and easy set of priorities for public schools making any decision. But they didn't seem to be the priorities of...
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Nothing else to write about?Mar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 8:10 a.m. I open up my daily herald, (notice the lowercase letters) and find "A haunting anniversary" article front page, top headline ... give...
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Festival cutbacks aren't wisest choiceMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just a few days ago in this space, we urged suburban residents to resist the temptation to let fear of this wretched economy get the best of us. Rather than hunkering d...
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Why you shouldn't go digitalMar 06, 2009 10:00 pm - If we want to solve the economic crisis all we have to do is not update our televisions from analog to digital. Congress recently approved delaying the nation's local br...
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A cautionary tale of letter writing and politicsMar 05, 2009 10:00 pm - May I direct your attention to a Fence Post letter appearing elsewhere on this page? It's headlined, "Response to Herald story on District 204." Submitted by four school...
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Should we spike this electoral board system?Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - All's fair in love and politics, so trying to shoot an arrow through the heart of a candidate's petitions to run for office is a rite of passage when local elections rol...
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Need more leaders, not ethics lawsFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - This is in response to the Feb. 9 Fence Post entry from Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John President Cullerton. Oh Please. Give the people of Ill...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Another gauge of road damage: We have another, nonscientific gauge of how badly winter has hurt suburban roads: Daily Herald editors who are road cyclists. As we await s...
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Corruption begins at grass roots levelFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois has several laws and regulation sets, which if followed closely by public governing bodies go a long way toward promising honesty in government. These are the I...
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Hey, did you hear the one about COD?Feb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - There was a time, I'm sure, when we wouldn't have dignified a rumor with a story. But times have changed. Rumors, gossip and innuendo have the ability to spread with the...