DuPage County Opinion
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Teachers maligned for no good reasonOct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - According to recent media coverage, our public schools are ineffective and the teachers who teach in them are overpaid, under-worked, uncaring or incompetent. I am a Sch...
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Removing risk in red light camerasOct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Opponents of red light cameras express concern that the institution of this penalty-based surveillance increases the number of accidents. This would occur from drivers'...
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Thanks for help at this year's BatFestOct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - BatFest 2007 was a great success due to the collaboration of many organizations in town. Batavia MainStreet presented the festival with our valued partners: Batavia Cham...
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Taylor Radtke story a wonderful giftOct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald is my hero today. Your decision to run Taylor Radtke's story on the first page and keep it in front of the public each day resulted in giving the girl a...
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Meeting on illegal immigrants a farceOct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The immigration meeting at the Hemmens Auditorium was nothing short of a farce. As it was being taped, only harmless and inane questions were chosen by the mayor so tha...
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Take advantage of cancer screeningOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - I am a proud breast cancer survivor, a registered nurse, breast center coordinator at Alexian Brothers Hospital and so very proud to be a resident of Illinois, the first...
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Governments tax as much as possibleOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Recently a congressman suggested raising the gasoline tax by 50 cents a gallon and justified his position by saying that when the price per gallon was at its peak (over ...
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Too much money in the bureaucracyOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald is to be commended for its excellent series on school finances. Chapter four of the series reports the percentage of actual funding expended on instruct...
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Courts rule against same-sex marriageOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - On Sept. 18, the Supreme Court of the largely liberal state of Maryland, in the legal decision, Conway v. Deane, declined recognition of same-sex marriage. Last year, th...
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Not enough money to bust protestersOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - No wonder DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett wants to buck the budget and hire more prosecutors. With all those anti-war protesters and Bush-Cheney bashers out t...