DuPage County Opinion
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Instead of boycotts, try charter schoolsAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, Sen. James Meeks has been making headlines, encouraging inner city children to boycott their first day of school to try signing up at New Trier in protest of t...
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Editorials show Herald's hypocrisyAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems odd that the editorial board of the Daily Herald would provide an open letter to Barack Obama on Aug. 28 asking him to tell us, with specifics, "how will you ge...
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Remembering how important labor isAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - On Labor Day, we remember the many positive achievements of organized labor in the United States. The labor movement is responsible for America's strong middle class by ...
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Governor's cuts are not really genuineAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Once again, our governor appears to be directing his ire on the residents of Illinois as he is unable to get his way with the state legislature regarding his pet project...
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Saturday SoapboxAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Jan Schakowsky, Ms. Party Line: Last week, we talked attendance in the 110th Congress; this week, it's partisanship. Who votes with his or her party most often? In the s...
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Time has become biggest Obama foeAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry. Is Obama going to be added to this list as yet another weak nominee from the Democrats? If our national elections were held in May or Jun...
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Oil plan must start with conservationAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - I am amazed at Douglas Dallmer's letter on Aug. 16th. He wrote 300 words on our energy problems that will be solved by offshore drilling. But of those 300 words, one key...
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The media's views of campaign firstsAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Throughout the coverage of the Democrats gathering in Denver, the liberal media has made it abundantly clear with commentary and choice of film clips that Barack Obama i...
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The real motives behind CN's planAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Living in Naperville, I have been following Marni Pyke's informative stories on CN's efforts to acquire the EJ&E rail line so that it can increase the freight traffic th...
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A text message; then, 2 loud thudsAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - There were two loud "thuds" heard Saturday morning. One was the sound of Barack Obama picking Joe Biden and dropping "change" as a campaign theme. The other was the sou...