Wheaton Opinion
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Views on railroad crossing deathsJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - The Daily Herald has a tendency to bury the death notices of railroad crossing deaths somewhere deep in the inner pages. However, the accidents which occur when these v...
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A little sharing could go a long wayJan 01, 2011 10:00 pm - While winter break gave students and teachers a reprieve from the daily routine, officials from some suburban districts took no break from thinking about ways to use tax...
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Civil law is best approach to marriageDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Carol J. Wright (“Civil unions an assault on marriage,” Dec. 25) seems to be laboring under the misconception that the Catholic Church is entitled to determine the law o...
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Emanuel is not a Chicago residentDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - After all the testimony, the Chicago Board of Elections now must decide if its one-year residency rule has any common sense meaning. My pocket dictionary defines “reside...
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Support for gays misstates theologyDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - In “Letter hurtful to gays, lesbians” (Dec. 12), the letter writer expressed being offended by a previously printed letter which articulated “hate and religion-based big...
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Vouchers, not projects, for AuroraDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - For more than a year, the Aurora Housing Authority has been talking about demolishing the Jericho Circle complex and building a new complex on the same site. This new AH...
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Saturday soapbox: Four words for your resolutionDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Four words for your resolution: To every suburbanite who begins today with a New Year's resolution to lose weight in 2011, may we offer four words: You can do it. ...
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Wheaton deserves credit for tax cutDec 30, 2010 10:00 pm - The city government of Wheaton recently voted to decrease its property tax levy by more than $20,000. It is encouraging to see a city where revenues are ahead of expendi...
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About that nude photo shoot by Evan LysacekDec 29, 2010 10:00 pm - Being an eagle-eyed editor and all, I just knew something big was going on when virtually the entire staff was gathered around an editor's computer screen a few months a...
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Digging locally to make a differenceDec 29, 2010 10:00 pm - We want to be indispensable to you. That's nothing new. As we said earlier this week, that means we want to engage, surprise and delight you. We want to cover our commun...