St. Charles Opinion
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All sides must agree to spend lessDec 14, 2012 3:40 am - This country must learn to live within its means. Congress must rise above partisan politics and do what we all must do — not spend more than we make. Will some people f...
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News judgment questionableDec 14, 2012 3:40 am - I must admit that I am disappointed in recent editions of my Daily Herald paper. In the Dec. 5 edition the headline story at the top of page 1 reads: “Sudanese students ...
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Meningitis outbreak not Tea Party’s faultDec 13, 2012 3:40 am - Ah, the Tea Party did it again. The FDA, short of funding, was not able to shut down a company after 460 cases of fungal meningitis were reported. If the FDA had been pr...
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Time to rethink parking at ECCDec 11, 2012 4:00 am - The parking lot at Elgin Community College needs to be improved. Students speed through it recklessly, traffic gets backed up because there are only a few exits, and stu...
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The SoapboxDec 08, 2012 4:00 am - Give it your all: Hersey High School senior Alex Baratta of Arlington Heights may be intimidating with his perfect GPA, his multisport prowess and his big, giving heart,...
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D303 superintendent contract ridiculousDec 05, 2012 3:40 am - Once again the St. Charles school board is tossing around money like they have unlimited funds. We will be footing the annual cost of the superintendent’s premiums for h...
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The SoapboxDec 01, 2012 4:00 am - Sleeping in a box: About 27 students — some who have not known hunger themselves — now have an idea of what it’s like to be homeless. The group camped out for a night on...
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What we have is a spending problemDec 01, 2012 3:40 am - Liberals have done a masterful job in directing the “fiscal cliff” rhetoric around a single solution: Raise taxes on the wealthy. Lost in all this rhetoric is that spend...
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U-46 should have school uniformsNov 30, 2012 3:40 am - Kids in school are dressing inappropriately. Schools should require students to wear uniforms in District U-46. This would save parents money by not having to by new clo...
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Election: Consider what our mayors have doneNov 28, 2012 4:00 am - Arlene Mulder will be stepping down next spring as village president of Arlington Heights after a tenure of 2 decades and many more years in public service beyond that. ...