Winfield Opinion
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A rebuttal to Spike Lee's commentsJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - Thank you for your coverage of Spike Lee's recent speech at North Central College. Very interesting that he prefaced a speech about Dr. Martin Luther King by attacking o...
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Mayors, managers session productiveJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - On Jan. 19, the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference presented its 2011 Legislative Priorities to an audience of 150 people. On behalf of the 32 member municipalities i...
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Naperville will miss Miriam FryJan 25, 2011 11:00 pm - Naperville has lost one of its finest ambassadors in the death of Miriam Fry. We moved, for the sixth time in seven years, to Naperville in January 1959. Present-day new...
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Get off the O'Hare expansion bandwagonJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - After reading your editorial about O'Hare's runways I have to comment. I personally am sick and tired of hearing about how vital economic the O'Hare expansion project is...
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Capitalism creates bigger pie for allJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - Donald Berwich, Obamacare czar, stated, “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must — must — redistribute wealth from the richer amo...
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A better spot for DuPage fairgroundsJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - If anyone hasn't noticed, the DuPage County Fairgrounds are in need for major changes in both location and updated facilities if it is going to survive in the future. Ac...
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Why ship Rusty the dog out of state?Jan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - Regarding the article about Rusty the stray dog, I was wondering why all of the good people who fed and cared for him, none were willing to adopt or find a home for him ...
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Government guided by conscienceJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - I was so heartened by the Jan. 20 letter in the paper telling of the website, nolabels.org. Awareness of how we use labels in our daily conversations is a first step to ...
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Springfield pilfered while we sleptJan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - So this is what it feels to wake up one morning, suddenly and inexplicably poorer by $1,200. No burglar crept in during the night, to abscond with a stereo or jewelry. N...
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Jeff Engelhardt advocates forgiveness, not death penaltyJan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Jeff Engelhardt is an intern in the Daily Herald's Springfield bureau and a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Springfield, enrolled in it...