DuPage County Opinion
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Support candidates with transparencyNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - We live in a great community and we have many public servants that are earnestly working to improve Glen Ellyn. However, this spring we became involved in the effort to ...
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Congress must be held accountableNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Voters have expressed their desire for change, but Congress is not listening. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank are pursuing more bailouts even though 80 percen...
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Claims outrageous about Obama's faithNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - I feel compelled to respond to the outrageous claims made by reader Robert Graham regarding Barack Obama's Christian faith. Clearly Mr. Graham is uninformed. First, it ...
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Same-sex marriage foe wasn't hatefulNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - I just watched a video clip from a chilling news report in Palm Springs, Cal. In the video, an older woman carrying an approximately 3-foot-tall cross attempted to expre...
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Let's get excited for important thingsNov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - When I first heard word about a decline in bee population, it was scary and exciting for about a week before I, like the rest of America, went back to doing whatever els...
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What will 'change' really mean?Nov 18, 2008 10:00 pm - "Change we can believe in." A wonderfully crafted campaign slogan that made for a nice banner backdrop for Barack Obama's campaign. However, if change means bringing bac...
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Why we have to buy our own productsNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Sava Matavich wrote on Nov. 13 a suggestion for helping our economy. "I want people buying plasma TVs, the newest cell phones..." That is a promising thought, but in tho...
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Why cheer just for the athletes?Nov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Naperville Central High School is in a quandary regarding space for athletic fields and vying for use of the park district garden plots. This entails the expenditure of ...
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High casino bid can't be top criterionNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - A state with a multibillion-dollar deficit. A highly sought gambling casino license that's up for bid, with the highest offer to the state so far at nearly a half-billio...
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Judge gives election board good marksNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - I am responding to the Nov. 11 letter by John Elkmann of Winfield, who gave the Du Page County Election Commission a low grade for its handling of the polling places in ...