DuPage County Opinion
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Proud of Glenbard North football teamNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - The Glenbard North Panther football team is not a Cinderella team. They are a football team of young men and their coaches that have had a season high school teams dream...
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Voluntary lottery to ease budget crisisNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - I have a solution for the state budget crisis. It involves gambling, but it's the kind of gambling many of us take part in fairly regularly without going to a casino -- ...
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Motorola donation ironic on firing dayNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - I read how Motorola has provided $3.5 million in grants to schools to inspire the next generation of technologists. This I find strange because many of these students' p...
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Next big step is to end death penaltyNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Some economists have reawakened a debate with controversial studies that claim the death penalty deters murder, an argument long since dismissed by experts. Statistics i...
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Have courage to control the deficitNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - The deficit is going to ultimately sink our ship. What politician is going to be brave enough to tell us if we don't lower the deficit we are going to plummet? Who is g...
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IHSA needs to live up to its missionNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Gosh, do we ache for simpler times. High school sports is supposed to be one of those treasured passages of life. For so many athletes and their followers, it is just th...
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Teachers benefit from protectionNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - To the editor: We have many District 211 teachers making well over $100,000 for a 10-month work period. They work in on isolated/protected economy with guaranteed job se...
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2 members stood up for taxpayersNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - Only two members of the District 211 school board showed the nerve to stand up to the teachers union. The raises given are larger than any corporations are giving out (e...
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Teachers earning every dollar they getNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - I wholeheartedly agree with the teacher from Bensenville: based on the total number of hours that teachers put in, whether it's before school, after school or at home, t...
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Wants finance series to go furtherNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - I was amused by Mr. Quick's criticism of the Daily Herald's weekly series on the K-12 public school system. For those who missed Mr. Quick's letter, he first suggested t...