Woodridge Opinion
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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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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...
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Corporate greed day of reckoning at handNov 06, 2011 5:00 am - The occupation of Wall Street demonstrations are continuing to expand and spread throughout the country and beyond our national borders. They appear to have legs, strong...
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Does the right see no clues here?Nov 05, 2011 6:06 am - In response to Martin J. Uttich’s Nov. 2 Fence Post letter (Does the left see no clues here?) on our energy policy (more drilling), let’s see. Per one report on fracking...
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Do the math again on teacher pensionsNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - Fence Post contributor Al Palash (Oct. 27) told another contributor — who wrote about teacher pensions — to “do the math.” Palash should do his math again, but this time...
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Good call on debit card fee protestNov 05, 2011 6:06 am - To all of you who chose to respond by taking action against Bank of America’s debit card fee charges, I applaud each of you. You and you alone made a statement to the Am...