Maple Park Opinion
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Tributes to Bob were beautifulAug 23, 2010 11:00 pm - A sincere thank you to all who made The River Corridor Foundation of St. Charles' 2010 Bob Leonard 5K Run and Walkathon event so successful on Aug. 7. The cooperation an...
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Navarette misses the downsideAug 23, 2010 11:00 pm - What's with this guy Ruben Navarrette? He has a column of his own, sugar coating the Hispanic problem in every state. He never mentions the downside. They cause overcrow...
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Why electric rates so highAug 23, 2010 11:00 pm - I recently saw St. Charles union electrical workers working in my neighborhood. I checked with the city and found that the average electrical worker is budgeted to make ...
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Gifts of life are treasuredAug 21, 2010 11:00 pm - I want to thank everyone who helped make my eighth annual donor party and blood drive a huge success; especially the fine folks from the Lifesource blood bank and Dave N...
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Make your own country strongAug 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Fence Post writer Matthew Sorens says immigrants have religion. Could you help them practice it? Over 200 years ago we had a lot of people, people like Lewis and Clark, ...
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Book, story feed anti-AmericanismAug 21, 2010 11:00 pm - The AP article in your Aug. 15 paper is revisionist history supported by Russia. The second half of the article did mention historian Richard Frank who downplayed the ro...
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What's your stance on mosque?Aug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - U.S. citizens of Illinois should be demanding all our state and national leaders to take a position on the mosque issue so we know where they stand. Their position shoul...
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Vote, Democrats, future depends on itAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Midterm elections traditionally favor the political party that doesn't hold the White House. The reason is pretty simple: the voters of the party in office think they ha...
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401(k)s better for us than pensionsAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - In the Aug. 9 Fence Post, Mr. Kosiba of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund says that the current Illinois pension system is fine the way it is and should be paid for...
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Teachers unions a JuggernautAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Our government caved in to the largest union organization in the country, the teachers union, a system with bloated administration jobs, suspect productivity, wasteful s...