Lisle Opinion
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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Thanks for support of Scout food driveMar 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The Boy Scouts of Thunderbird District thank their neighbors for the wonderful response to our recent Scouting for Food collection. Almost 13,000 pounds of food were col...
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Bridging the generation gap with Pat BooneMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - How do you like the new mug shot of me? Hard to believe it's five years ago to the month that I started writing this column. Hard to believe, too, how my hair has gotten...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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No compromising land preservationMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - There have been several occasions during my 13-year tenure as president of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's Board of Commissioners when public and private...
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Danger at juncture of I-88, I-355Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I'm a Lisle resident who lives within walking distance of the intersection of I-88 and I-355 and regularly travels both of these tollways. Is it just me, or has anyone e...
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Sorry, but even student journalists need bosses, tooMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Let me start by saying I have enormous respect for the accomplishments of the Central Times, the student-run newspaper at Naperville Central High School. More than once ...
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Writer dead wrong on 14th AmendmentMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Thomas Tawney is dead wrong when he says in his Feb. 25 letter the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born to illegal al...
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Soapbox: Good start at Lisle Park DistrictFeb 22, 2008 10:00 pm - It's much too early to know if Lisle residents are willing to support a tax increase to build a 75,000-square-foot recreation center along Short Street to address a perc...
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Lessons learned at NIU come back to the foreFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Jim Davis, NIU Class of '77. B.S. in Journalism. Frankly, I hadn't been thinking about that a lot lately. Until this past week. In that time, I thought more than once of...