Winfield Opinion
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Tell U.S to stop giving away moneyNov 11, 2011 3:00 am - If you were in debt over your head — way, way, way over — would you borrow money to give to practically every home on your block? No. This is what the U.S. is doing — b...
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The reverent tribute of Veterans DayNov 11, 2011 3:00 am - Is today sacred? It can be, and not because of any mysticism in the coincidental collection of ones that make up its signature. The late author Kurt Vonnegut, a prisoner...
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The need to boost financial literacyNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - You may have seen the TV ad: A boy walks home carrying an enormous rocket pop, and Dad asks him where his new bike is. The boy sheepishly raises his treat and says, “I t...
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Park award just beginning of processNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - We recently received some very good news. After nearly a year of hard work on the part of our entire staff and a formal hearing before the Commission for Accreditation o...
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Too bad Cain scandal will do him inNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - The Cain sexual harassment debacle will by its media presence, botched initial response and recently named victim sink his political future. Sensationalist lawyer Gloria...
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Kids need to spend more time outdoorsNov 09, 2011 3:00 am - Last month during Great Outdoors America Week, I was fortunate enough to team up with the Sierra Club and fly to Washington D.C. to let our elected officials know that c...
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Why hasn’t Naperville published report?Nov 09, 2011 3:00 am - At a recent Naperville City Council meeting, Councilman Grant Wehrli explained to Kim Bendis why she was ejected from the Oct. 18 council meeting. Ms. Bendis had made a ...
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Join the call to ‘drill, drill, drill’Nov 08, 2011 4:00 am - A recent letter writer seemed to suggest that because we had an oil spill in the gulf, a leak in an underground pipe during a fracking process in Pennsylvania, and a sli...
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Winfield village board needs to act with decorumNov 08, 2011 4:00 am - We live in a time of incivility — from anonymous postings on the Internet to the daily partisan screeching on talk cable TV. So the fact that incivility should be infect...
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Partnership can save millions of dollarsNov 07, 2011 4:00 am - Due to concerns over rising juvenile crime in the 1990s, counties acted quickly to mitigate this public safety threat by constructing juvenile detention facilities to ho...