West Chicago Opinion
-
Palin choice separates candidatesSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - What a difference six days make. Senator Obama - the alleged agent of change - picks 65-year old fellow Senator Joe Biden, a 35-year Washington special-interest insider ...
-
A text message; then, 2 loud thudsAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - There were two loud "thuds" heard Saturday morning. One was the sound of Barack Obama picking Joe Biden and dropping "change" as a campaign theme. The other was the sou...
-
Government a bad investor in energyAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Not to pick on Adam Smit (Fence Post Aug. 18) alone but yet another reader writes urging that "we invest" in alternate energy technology, etc. I'm open to correction, ...
-
Day of Giving great way to battle apathy in troubled timesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Philanthropy, I'll bet, is on a downswing. People are struggling to pay for a tank of gas, food at the store and other essentials; how can they find money to give to ch...
-
Saturday Soapbox: DuPage County and Fox ValleyAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Time for an explanation: The wall of silence Naperville's park district board has created around recently hired executive director Daniel Betts' sudden "leave of absence...
-
Giving back in a winning wayAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Giving back in a winning way: When Michael Mendel bought a $100 raffle ticket, he was hoping to win big. But not for himself. The St. Charles business owner had other th...
-
Roskam not strong on the environmentJul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - I recently arrived home to find a door handle flyer for Rep. Peter Roskam which, with its photography and generalized claims, seems to imply that he cares about the envi...
-
Saturday SoapboxJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Tough sentence warranted: This week, DuPage Circuit Judge Kathryn Creswell sentenced a Lombard man to 65 years in prison for opening fire on three local police officers...
-
A curmudgeon's guide to 4th of July festival funJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Yes, of course I enjoyed Jake Griffin's story on the front page of Thursday's paper. I helped him come up with the concept. It offered all sorts of useful tips on how to...
-
Look at what Cindy McCain wears, tooJun 28, 2008 11:00 pm - I would like to reply to the woman who wrote "Designer dresses during a recession" that appeared in the June 21 Fence Post. The woman who wrote this letter needs to exa...