DuPage County Opinion
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Cleaning the swamp?Aug 13, 2018 1:00 am - The default requirement for appointment to a Trump Administration government position seems to be a willingness to use that position for personal gain. The growing list ...
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Council ignored criticism of developmentAug 13, 2018 1:00 am - It is very disappointing that Warrenville City Council members ignored evidence of blatant falsehoods and exaggerated claims of success by the developers and the plannin...
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Apple hypocrisyAug 13, 2018 1:00 am - Congratulations, Apple, for being the first company to reach $1,000,000,000,000 that is one trillion dollars in value. But excuse me for a moment, as I call Apple hypocr...
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Let's put a huge tax on political adsAug 11, 2018 1:00 am - Not a day goes by when we don't see, hear or read about the state of Illinois' revenue woes. And, not a day goes by without each of us being bombarded with political ads...
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Debate shows clear differencesAug 11, 2018 1:00 am - I am writing this after watching the recent debate between 6th Congressional District candidates Republican incumbent Peter Roskam and Democrat Sean Casten. There were m...
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Columnist's simplistic view of povertyAug 10, 2018 1:00 am - "Poverty is no mystery, and it's easily avoidable," Walter E. Williams wrote in the Daily Herald. If it were so avoidable, then why has poverty existed for so long all o...
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City must do somethingAug 10, 2018 1:00 am - This is not Chicago," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Aug. 6 after 66 shootings and 12 deaths the previous weekend. Really, Mr. Mayor? Really? In fact, this IS Chicago and (a...
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Prevention is better foreign policy than reactionAug 09, 2018 1:00 am - National security has always been one of the U.S.'s top priorities. It's why our military budget dwarfs that of any other country. The "zero tolerance" policies on immig...
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Challenger's ideas wrong for districtAug 08, 2018 1:00 am - After Sean Casten won the Democrat primary for Illinois' 6th Congressional District, I fully expected his campaign going forward would parrot the political rhetoric of t...
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Don't despair. VoteAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - Readers may think of these times as a new "Dark Age" of politics, but we should not despair. People need to vote, but not despair. About 50 years ago, there was a book d...