St. Charles Opinion
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Editorial: Complaining over the wrong distractions in Van Dyke prosecutionSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - As a nationally watched murder trial gets under way in Chicago, the chairman of the Kane County Board is worried about the wrong distractions involving the trial's prose...
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Hold them accountableAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - I've read a number of comments criticizing the "left-leaning" press. One letter to the editor accused the press of relentlessly pursuing the destruction of the American ...
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Press didn't cover Obama's misstatementsAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - It was with great interest that I read the self-serving editorial on freedom of the press and Trumps attack on the media for being fake news. The plan to have so many pa...
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Columnist's simplistic view of povertyAug 10, 2018 1:00 am - "Poverty is no mystery, and it's easily avoidable," Walter E. Williams wrote in the Daily Herald. If it were so avoidable, then why has poverty existed for so long all o...
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Don't despair. VoteAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - Readers may think of these times as a new "Dark Age" of politics, but we should not despair. People need to vote, but not despair. About 50 years ago, there was a book d...
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County should stand up to unionsAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - I read with great interest that the Kane County board seems to be at a dilemma with respect to property taxes vis-a-vis next year's budget. In the same article, it was p...
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It's premature to back court nomineeAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - The Supreme Court nomination is of great interest to most of us, or should be, because of the implications for court protection or reversal of protection of many rights ...
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We need bigger reform than HSA improvementJul 30, 2018 1:00 am - The July 23 guest column by Janet Trautwein supporting the Bipartisan HSA Improvement Act is in need of a larger perspective. Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, are toute...
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Trying to do somethingJul 26, 2018 1:00 am - As an agnostic with a daughter, I vastly prefer the type of Christianity that father Pfleger shows by trying to do something about gang violence. Somebody needs to pay a...
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Tax reform law will damage health careJul 09, 2018 1:00 am - I would like to add a followup to Reid McCollum's letter regarding the Roskam tax plan, one of many excellent letters published on July 2. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act esse...