Wheaton Opinion
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Should we spike this electoral board system?Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - All's fair in love and politics, so trying to shoot an arrow through the heart of a candidate's petitions to run for office is a rite of passage when local elections rol...
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Chickens coming home to roost?Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - It's ironic that so many of those who decry big government and burdensome regulations have been the very ones who, through their greed and lack of concern for the health...
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Ending wars might help economyFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - While Larry Grogan (Fence Post, 2/8/09) is correct in decrying the fact that we have to borrow from foreign countries to pay for the economic stimulus, thus increasing t...
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Congress needs to cut its own payFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - When businesses are in financial trouble, they either lay off workers or ask them to take pay cuts; when businesses thrive, employees get raises. When the American econo...
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Let's not base recovery on tax cutsFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Interesting, isn't it, that Republican critics complain about raising the national debt for this bailout. They didn't worry when Presidents Reagan and Bush pushed it up...
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Be a part of the solution, GOPFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - The Republicans seem not to know that the time for partisanship is over. America faces a crisis of well being, the essentials of health, job, wages, shelter, and perhaps...
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What do COD incumbents fear?Feb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - We should be thankful that someone is concerned about the rule of law in Illinois elections given the tarnished image of this state's political processes. Appointed Coll...
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Wheaton businesses need local supportFeb 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Thank you, Sharon Huck, for your recent letter (Fence Post, Jan. 31) regarding the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce annual State of the City address being held in Carol Strea...
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Health board has outlived usefulnessFeb 17, 2009 10:00 pm - One of the unfair criticisms of universal health care is the fear that patients' choices of physician or hospital may be taken away from them. What is the difference bet...
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Hey, did you hear the one about COD?Feb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - There was a time, I'm sure, when we wouldn't have dignified a rumor with a story. But times have changed. Rumors, gossip and innuendo have the ability to spread with the...