Woodridge Opinion
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Why are we firing the teachers?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - I am flabbergasted by the approach of firing all the teachers in a school to improve student performance. In the corporate world, the equivalent would be when a company ...
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Why arts are an essential skillApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - The arts are proven to help close the achievement gap. The collection of research described in Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Devel...
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'No-cussing zone' for White House?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Does the current administration in Washington hold the record for profanity proneness? The media had to delete an adjective from Vice President Biden's greeting of Presi...
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Hire teachers to do water group's workApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Fire the DuPage Water Commission now. How much longer must the taxpayers of DuPage put up with this inept management? No severance, no benefits, gone. They have proven ...
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Merit pay for state lawmakers?Apr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate compensation packages for the state's "part time employees" - better known as the Illinois legislature. Perhaps, given their sterling p...
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Let world know how reforms are workingApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - My father was a physician in a small, upstate New York town; he became more and more disillusioned over the years I was in our family home with constraints on his practi...
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Surefire way to bring troops homeApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - For over seven years now we in the antiwar movement have been trying to get our soldiers out of the Middle East and back home. All our efforts have failed until the tea ...
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Obama ignores the military's wishesApr 02, 2010 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party has always been a leader in immorality in its support of gay rights, gay marriage, gambling, and abortion and morally corrupt politicians like Bill ...
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Amazing furor over health bill passageApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - For more that year now we have been subjected to an astounding furor concerning health care. Since the passage of the health care bill this furor, coupled with inflammat...
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Waiting to hear more from FosterApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Congressman Bill Foster, thank you for your "yes" vote on the most significant piece of social legislation to emerge from Washington DC in 50 years. It was a cliffha...