DuPage County Opinion
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The most valuable person left behindNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - The most valuable person to a deployed soldier is the person left behind. Every deployed soldier has a person who he or she had to leave behind, whether it is a parent, ...
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Historical fiction can be dangerousNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I am a big fan of historical novels. Purists like Henyk Sienkiewicz, and Ivanhoe author, Sir Walter Scott, are quite rare. Today we have Roger Moore and Oliver Stone. St...
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Can't we all be civil on the road?Nov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I'd like to address my neighbor who passed me on Hart Road recently, just south of Pine in Batavia. I was on my bike, you were driving a new red Odyssey, and you took a ...
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Next time, endorse a winner: RoskamNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - The Daily Herald seems to have trouble getting the message that people of the 6th District prefer to be represented by someone who lives in the 6th District, knows his n...
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Harrowing near-miss in first voteNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - I turned 18 in September and was extremely excited that my first voting experience would be for this presidential election. I went to my assigned polling place right aft...
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Coal-powered plants deserve scrutinyNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - This country's abundant resource of coal brings many problems to our planet and to the communities in the areas where it is mined and burned: water and air pollution, re...
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Daily Herald bias showing in captionNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - In the Oct. 21 L&E section, the caption used under the photo in the Jeffrey Wright article showcased the Herald's subtle political bias. Next to the photo of Jeffrey Wri...
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Nothing wrong with Green for GradesNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - I was amused by Chuck Goudie's column about Green for Grades. He decries the evil of paying people more to be good at something than to be bad at it, in this case, payin...
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Lights at Glenbard West a bad ideaNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The Glenbard High School District 87 board will soon be voting on a proposal to add artificial turf and lights to Glenbard West High School's (GWHS) Memorial Park and Du...
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Make Breathalyzers mandatory in carsNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - A message about I am writing this in regards to the recent Daily Herald titled "Memory, message" on Oct. 21. This message is not only to the editor but to all the citiz...