Wheaton Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Standing up for what she believesMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - You can argue all you want about whether Linda Kane, the Central Times newspaper adviser at Naperville Central High School, overstepped her bounds by allowing student jo...
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Red light cameras must be justifiedMar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - I would like to second the letter by Mr. Rosenthal of St. Charles, and add to his argument from my experience with a red light camera. Recently, I received a $90 ticke...
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Stories on Obama belonged on Page 1Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Help me and others understand your logic when you chose to place the Obama articles on page 10 of your March 15 Daily Herald while you placed articles about a priest in ...
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Support creation of Department of PeaceMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Almost 50 years ago, President Eisenhower warned: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsou...
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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Bridging the generation gap with Pat BooneMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - How do you like the new mug shot of me? Hard to believe it's five years ago to the month that I started writing this column. Hard to believe, too, how my hair has gotten...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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No compromising land preservationMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - There have been several occasions during my 13-year tenure as president of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's Board of Commissioners when public and private...
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Obama is clearly the better choiceMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Hillary Clinton can crow all she wishes about the importance of her wins to date in many of the bigger states, but it doesn't signify unless in November her supporters e...
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'Hope' is not going to keep us safeMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - If we're willing to be intellectually honest, and start from a baseline that says both Obama and McCain are fundamentally decent men, the decision should come down to th...