Oak Brook Opinion
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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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Scales now favor the few and the mightyNov 11, 2011 3:00 am - We are seeing the balance of societal influence over events and our lives move from the small and populace to the big and the few. In October, the Illinois legislature r...
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Tell U.S to stop giving away moneyNov 11, 2011 3:00 am - If you were in debt over your head — way, way, way over — would you borrow money to give to practically every home on your block? No. This is what the U.S. is doing — b...
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The need to boost financial literacyNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - You may have seen the TV ad: A boy walks home carrying an enormous rocket pop, and Dad asks him where his new bike is. The boy sheepishly raises his treat and says, “I t...
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Park award just beginning of processNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - We recently received some very good news. After nearly a year of hard work on the part of our entire staff and a formal hearing before the Commission for Accreditation o...
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Too bad Cain scandal will do him inNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - The Cain sexual harassment debacle will by its media presence, botched initial response and recently named victim sink his political future. Sensationalist lawyer Gloria...
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Kids need to spend more time outdoorsNov 09, 2011 3:00 am - Last month during Great Outdoors America Week, I was fortunate enough to team up with the Sierra Club and fly to Washington D.C. to let our elected officials know that c...