Westmont Opinion
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Uncle Sam not dead, just abusedAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I, too, heard the story of old Uncle Sam that Walt Zlotow related in the Aug. 9 Fence Post. Sam wasn’t dead but he had seen a lot of abuse and it had been getting steadi...
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Trickle-up poverty has to stopAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Trickle-up poverty has to stop I’m a retiree who never made more than $50,000 per year and a believer in the tea party principles. Fence Post writer Jean Alberti wa...
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Big disappointment at tollway meetingAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Big disappointment at tollway meeting At the urging of the Daily Herald editorial staff, my husband and I attended Thursday’s Tollway Authority meeting in Wheaton. ...
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Tax Wall St. dealers’ profits to the maxAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Tax Wall St. dealers’ profits to the max Lately we heard about and read about Wall Street “investors.” These are not investors. They are speculators, institutions, ...
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Toll increase worth the benefitsAug 22, 2011 4:00 am - Toll increase worth the benefits As mayor of Bensenville, a town that sits on the western edge of one of the world’s busiest airports and at the crossroads of North...
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College should admit hostility to gaysAug 22, 2011 4:00 am - College should admit hostility to gays The Aug. 4 Daily Herald reports that Wheaton College has been ranked No. 1 by the Princeton Review as the most unfriendly uni...
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Marmion ‘Crayons for Kids’ a successAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - On behalf of Marmion Academy’s Crayons for Kids School supply drive, we would like to thank the patrons of the local Jewel-Oscos for their participation in this year’s s...
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GOP puts party before countryAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - The myth that tax cuts benefiting the richest among us actually create jobs has been thoroughly disproved, and yet the Republican Party stubbornly clings to it. The Repu...
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Ample blame in debt crisis messAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Jesus said, “Of those to whom much has been given much shall be required.” Christian conservatives persist in telling us that this nation was founded upon Christian prin...
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‘Creeping socialsm’ has never workedAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Recently the liberal Democrats have called the tea party members “radicals” and “terrorists.” What is radical about limited government and personal responsibility — the ...