Westmont Opinion
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Sad commentary: Sticker removedNov 17, 2011 4:00 am - I recently mentioned to my son that I noticed a campaign sticker on my car had been partially torn off. He asked, “Who would do that?” Later, while visiting a friend at ...
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Teachers might not know of obligationsNov 17, 2011 4:00 am - A number of years ago I was working as a physics teacher in an inner-city high school of Chicago. I suspected child abuse by a faculty member, but only suspected this wi...
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Time to stop viewing students as robotsNov 16, 2011 3:00 am - Time to stop viewing students as robots The recent complaints from the upper class snobs that entrench DuPage County’s many country clubs about the low standardize ...
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Longfellow Veterans Day one to cherishNov 16, 2011 3:00 am - Longfellow Veterans Day one to cherish As a Marine Corps veteran, I accepted an invitation from fifth grader Will Richards to attend the Longfellow School Veterans ...
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Don’t give Sears sweetheart dealNov 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Sears has been threatening to leave Illinois unless they get their way: continued access to public infrastructure and resources (compliments of taxpayers) along with an ...
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Cain allegations pale next to ClintonNov 14, 2011 11:00 pm - I have come to expect bias from liberals and their mouthpiece, the so-called mainstream media. Lately, the hypocrisy has gone way over the top. The faux trauma and hand ...
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Lenin: Capitalism’s ruin is taxationNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - It would seem foolhardy that our political leaders here and around the world see more taxes upon more taxes as a way to get us out of the financial chaos that spending b...
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Hospital support much appreciatedNov 13, 2011 5:00 am - On behalf of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council and its DuPage County member hospitals, I would like to commend the DuPage County Board for passing a resolution...
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Why didn’t 11/11/11 news run on Page 11?Nov 13, 2011 5:00 am - Surely you could have found a way to print the balance of this great article on Page 11 instead of Page 12, right? Isn’t also ironic that it takes 11 letters to spell “...
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Lombard foreign correspondent’s career winds downNov 13, 2011 4:00 am - The final paragraph of Army Lt. Matt Spartz’s Veterans Day column, I told him, put a lump in my throat first time I read it. It said: “But most of all, we honor our fall...