DuPage County Opinion
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Editorial: Cook County races should be about more than beverage taxSep 28, 2017 11:00 pm - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle avoided a primary challenge Thursday when county Commissioner Richard Boykin announced he would run for re-election to his 1...
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Wheaton College silence is consentSep 28, 2017 12:01 am - Dear President Ryken and the Board of Trustees, Your silence is consent. As a Wheaton College alumna, I am more than "deeply troubled" by the recent news that five Wheat...
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Liberal agenda shows in health care storySep 27, 2017 1:00 am - I see that your support for liberal Democrat opinions continue to be presented as news. On page 2 of your Sept. 20 edition you ran a Washington Post story captioned "10 ...
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Congress forgets value of compromiseSep 26, 2017 12:01 am - I have just finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's magnificent book, "A Team of Rivals." She wrote about the evening that Richmond, Va. fell. A crowd had gathered in fr...
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High time to change Electoral CollegeSep 25, 2017 12:01 am - The South was fighting the Union long before the Civil War, like in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention. The southern states were responsible for both the Electora...
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Lombard parks right to hold ground on LilaciaSep 25, 2017 12:01 am - In 1977, both the Lombard library board and the park district board wisely identified the open space above the library building as space that should be protected by air ...
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Who got more votes, has more expertise?Sep 23, 2017 12:01 am - If you wonder why people are angry enough to elect Donald Trump as our President of the United States and why newspapers are held in such contempt by many, just look at ...
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Chanting with the gusto of medieval monksSep 23, 2017 12:01 am - What illegal guns? Chicago's mayor bemoans the proliferation of what he calls "illegal guns." But, really, aren't these guns nothing more than "undocumented" weapons? Wh...
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Still whining about the electionSep 22, 2017 12:01 am - It's bad enough we have to have the Hillary Clinton "Sour Grapes Tour," but to see the editors of a newspaper like the Herald still whining about the election is downrig...
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Future of planet at stakeSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - Growing and overwhelming evidence confirms the long-predicted catastrophic effect of global warming. Extreme weather patterns are occurring all over the world and for so...