St. Charles Opinion
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Schools should keep range of arts classesMay 25, 2009 11:00 pm - School districts are under pressure to keep art classes as an integral part of the curriculum and still balance their budgets in a tight economy. They realize that schoo...
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Thanks for help with food driveMay 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Many thanks to the St. Charles Post Office and this wonderful community for their support of the recent post office food. Our friends and community partners at the Tri-C...
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Beware scams on one-time gov. checksMay 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will be happy to know that issuance of the special one-time $250 American Recovery and Re...
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Thank a WWII vet while you still canMay 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Beginning with the Revolutionary War in 1775 and up to the present moment with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American casualties both dead and wounded in all major c...
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Poppies represent blood of soldiersMay 19, 2009 11:00 pm - I am a member of the VFW and was asked to help sell poppies for Memorial Day. I agreed as I have in past years. On Friday I stood by our main post office from 8 a.m. to ...
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Want my vote? Vote for reform - nowMay 17, 2009 11:00 pm - To my representatives in the state legislature, the only ones for which I have the opportunity to cast a vote for or against in future elections, Rep. Ramey and Sen. Mi...
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Educate kids on sexual orientationMay 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was an 11-year-old middle school student at the New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, Mass. Carl was perceived by his classmates to be ...
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Government exists only to protect usMay 14, 2009 11:00 pm - The May 5 Daily Herald was "Obama focuses on overseas tax loopholes." This is an article on ending so-called offshore tax breaks, or at least it is what the newspaper w...
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Established parties won't get reform doneMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - The time is now to call for a change that Illinois needs. However, it will not be through the current legislators, as the Daily Herald would like to see, as stated in it...
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We should follow Japan's leadMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Charles Crouse, in his letter in the April 25 Daily Herald, is off target. He would have us believe that the "housing crisis" was caused by President Bush, homebuilders ...