DuPage County Opinion
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Time for a little spring cleaningApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Another spring is on the way and Bartlett is dirtier than ever. Everywhere you look, garbage litters the streets, the parkways, fences and shrubbery. I have spoken on nu...
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Company trying to split communitiesApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Canadian National is attempting to pit the residents of the 80 communities Canadian National trains currently pass through against the "over-privileged" residents of Bar...
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Health-care fix starts with cost controlsApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyone in the presidential derby talks about what they will do about the terrible expense of health care. The Congress has allowed the national debt to grow from $1 tr...
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The harsh result of government mathApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Reagan's union busting. Plus Clinton's NAFTA treaty. Plus Failed illegal immigration enforcement. Plus Bush's war and tax breaks. Equals: Middle class genocide. Greg Sto...
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Kane transit cash talk goes from 'I want' to 'we need'Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Seems there's nothing quite like a big pile of somebody else's money to make politicians' eyes light up and the saliva begin to flow. "When it began to dawn on people th...
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Voters who have no cause to complainApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - I am so tired of all the complaining going on about sales taxes being too high, gas being too high, property taxes being too high. What did you think would happen when y...
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Lincoln quotes gave us the guideApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Question: Why are we so smart today as to think we can improve on society when Abraham Lincoln said it all years ago. Here's his quote: "You cannot strengthen the weak b...
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Educators aren't just principals, teachersApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Now comes the story of Al Weber. Weber, as Daily Herald reporter Sheila Ahern wrote last week, was not what we normally think of when we hear the word educator. He was ...
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Don't abandon right way to battle drugsApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - You see it in the face of the anguished mother, weeping over a rifled jewelry box, knowing it was her son who robbed her again to buy his drugs. You see it in the emerge...
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Holy Name Six exposed hypocrisyApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The Holy Name Six are being vilified for taking action on the Pope's denunciation of the unethical war and illicit U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, where countle...