St. Charles Opinion
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Give riders better warning for trainsJul 27, 2011 5:00 am - At 12:37 p.m. July 10, Metra failed to notify waiting passengers of the Union Pacific West Line from Elburn to Chicago to board the train. The scroll message board only ...
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Hughes has been a Sugar Grove leaderJul 27, 2011 5:00 am - The Sugar Grove Chamber of Commerce & Industry was saddened to learn of the dismissal of Sugar Grove Library Director Beverly Holmes Hughes on July 14. Beverly, as an el...
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Nothing fair about ‘fair trade’ pactsJul 27, 2011 5:00 am - Proposed “fair” trade agreements with Panama, South Korea and Colombia are an extension of NAFTA, which already has cost the U.S. millions of jobs. Why do you think corp...
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Video gambling will be boon for townsJul 26, 2011 5:00 am - The Daily Herald’s recent editorial and news coverage on gaming failed to acknowledge the benefits of video gaming for Illinois, including how it will bring significant ...
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Moms teach lessons of perseverance in face of tragedyJul 26, 2011 5:00 am - The loss of a child is devastating, unimaginable. And if the death is violent, or senseless, it is that much harder to comprehend. One way some suburban mothers are deal...
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A solution to moving American jobs overseasJul 26, 2011 5:00 am - The letter, “Tax breaks have led to job outsourcing,” in the July 16 Daily Herald, has it all wrong. Federal tax cuts have nothing to do with companies outsourcing jobs....
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Farnham, Madigan helping consumersJul 24, 2011 5:00 am - In this day and age, everyone needs to be cautious of increasingly sophisticated con artists and their schemes to steal money from the average hardworking American famil...
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‘Job porly done’ on Medicaid issueJul 24, 2011 5:00 am - I am outraged that the Illinois Medicaid reform that was enacted this year to tighten eligibility review was denied by the federal government. Another example of how Oba...
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Would you miss the federal government?Jul 24, 2011 5:00 am - Perhaps we need to test the adage, “You don't know what you have until it's gone.” In other words, let's not increase the debt ceiling and see what happens. Will anyone ...
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Why a light charge for Elgin shooter?Jul 24, 2011 5:00 am - I was horrified to read in the Daily Herald July 15 that 57-year-old Donald Rattanavong of Arthur Drive in Elgin had, on July 4, shot an Elgin High School student in the...