DuPage County Opinion
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Obama inspires politicians at all levelsFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - "Yes we can," the campaign slogan of Barack Obama, became a household slogan for all of America. Yes we can; a black man born to a Kenyan, raised in Hawaii becomes the f...
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Help rebuild school's historyFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - If one lives long enough, everyone has the opportunity to experience that sense of horror when it is discovered that something that was meant to be saved forever had bee...
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Eye on DUI casesFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - I am responding to the article in Monday's Daily Herald titled "Trials Jump in McHenry County." Over the past year Court Watchers from the Alliance Against Intoxicated ...
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Does Pat Quinn still like peanut butter?Feb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - A lot of bad things are going on with peanut butter these days, but talk about this staple in the American diet raised a memory about our new governor that I want to sha...
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Geithner should resign, tooFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Now that Barack Obama has admitted that he "screwed up" with regard to his Tom Daschle nomination, he needs to complete the picture by getting Timothy Geithner to resign...
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Commercials are far too expensiveFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - While the rest of the country is feeling the effects of the economy, professional sports must be immune. According to the business section of the Daily Herald, ad pricin...
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Illinois' troubles leave no room for politicsFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - While I look forward to a new era in Illinois state government with a new governor and two new leaders in the General Assembly, it is no secret our state is facing serio...
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Many words can describe BlagojevichFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Recently on one of our local TV news stations a political analyst stated "if you look up the word defiance in the dictionary you will find the meaning as Blagojevich." T...
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Ted Cox should toughen skinFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - I'm so surprised at the Daily Herald's Ted Cox taking exception to how Keith Olbermann portrayed his comments. Its amazing that, through his own words," 99 percent of yo...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - A turn for the better: We have to give Schaumburg credit. Just two weeks ago, the Soapbox had an issue with the one intersection in the village patrolled by red-light ca...