St. Charles Opinion
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Clemens case shows how 'whodunit' can supercharge a storyFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - As a high school journalism teacher many years ago, I tried to prepare students who cared little about current events and would never want to work for a newspaper to at ...
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Let's give schools what they needFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Congratulations to all the St. Charles Park District residents who supported the tax referendum of $25 million. I hope you are as generous when the school district reque...
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School district could do betterFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - A couple of weeks ago as I was getting ready for work, my son told me he didn't think he should go to school that day. He said that someone left a note at St. Charles No...
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Comrades united in a modern-day Battle of WaterlooFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Tom Lutz stood no chance. His first clue should have been the forecast. His second should have been that he'd drawn the short straw that put a journalist irate about poo...
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View of vandalism from memorial benchFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Maybe any student accused of vandalizing school property should have to sit on the bench outside of the St. Charles Police Department and listen to a lecture about comm...
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Point to remember on suburban turnoutFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - The early line on last week's voter turnout in Cook County is something to crow about: record voter registration of 1.35 million, record early voting of about 60,000 ba...
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Saturday Soapbox: No news is good newsFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - After a couple of rather disastrous recent elections, Kane County finally seems to have gotten one right. Despite a turnout 50 percent higher than in the 2004 primary, C...
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Scientist upset at where money flowsFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - This is in response to your Jan. 30 editorial, "Paying dearly for living beyond our means." As a taxpayer who sees nearly 50 percent of his income disappear into vario...
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This administration has terrible recordFeb 05, 2008 10:00 pm - People of conscience will judge the Bush regime as the hoax of the century; with eight consecutive State of the Union addresses being the punch lines of the cruelest jok...
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'Put down' owner, not the poor dogFeb 04, 2008 10:00 pm - I felt compelled to write your paper after seeing the photo on the front page of the pit bull being held down by police. You could see by his sad crouch that he was scar...