DuPage County Opinion
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Use common sense on pension problemJul 13, 2008 11:00 pm - There's been a lot of hand-wringing lately about Illinois' $42 billion unfunded pension liability and the $22 billion deficit in the teachers pension fund. But there has...
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Let's share burden of freight trafficJul 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Thanks to state Reps. Rosemary Mullins and Carolyn Krause for supporting the proposed Canadian National purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, and also support...
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Saturday SoapboxJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Tough sentence warranted: This week, DuPage Circuit Judge Kathryn Creswell sentenced a Lombard man to 65 years in prison for opening fire on three local police officers...
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Obama strongly promotes abortionJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - "While I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn't be fulfilling God's will unless I went out and did the Lord's work," Barack Obama said. Profound words. But...
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No place for crude online commentsJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - I believe that the Daily Herald needs to rethink and review the service it provides, to allow comment on local news stories online. While normally it would be regarded a...
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Easy choice to cast vote for ObamaJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - While I don't think any one person can turn our country around with a war going on, an ailing economy, skyrocketing gas prices and all other problems, a vote for McCain ...
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Is it really a time for celebration?Jul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - At a time when our collective consciousness has been crushingly assaulted by a duplicitous government that arbitrarily assigns the status of a "rogue nation" or "enemy c...
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Make an effort to adopt an animalJul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Please think about adopting an animal from a local shelter or rescue. Currently, all of the shelters, animal control facilities, and rescues in Illinois are drowning in ...
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Military is fair at Guantanamo BayJul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - There is no tangible proof that our military is resorting to torture. Furthermore, our military their would be fair in the military tribunals, much more so than what you...
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Support pediatric cancer researchJul 09, 2008 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, June 24, my five-year-old daughter, Katie, and I walked all over Capitol Hill in Washington to meet with Illinois legislators to ask them for continued fundi...