DuPage County Opinion
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Misrepresenting child health planOct 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Rep. Peter Roskam voted against expansion of the State's Children's Health Insurance Program, and when I asked his office why, I was told there would be an expansion in ...
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Humanitarian tragedy in BurmaOct 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Many people are aware of humanitarian tragedies in Africa, but much less is known about the human rights meltdown in Burma, (Myanmar). Recently there has been disturbing...
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Readers keep the faith, and dish out some Cubs realityOct 15, 2007 11:00 pm - I had figured my "Cubs Sweep to the Pennant" column would fill this space today while I caught a flight back from Colorado. Instead I find myself in an odder place. "Bur...
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Cook County can't afford higher taxesOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: Recently, the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability issued a report that Cook County's revenue system is unable to support the services that it is char...
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Church helps unwed moms have childrenOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Apparently, Anne Ahrens of Schaumburg, whose letter ran Oct. 5, does not know about St. Mary Church in Huntley. Pro-life people do care and do assist unwed mothers. In M...
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Change vote, for the sake of childrenOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - She was for it before she was against it. My representative, Judy Biggert, was one of 16 U.S. House Republicans, including Illinois' Mark Kirk, who originally supported ...
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America should not be a theocracyOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - This is in response to a letter called "church/state split late gift of courts" by D.O. Goodman (Oct. 11). If there is atrocity here, it's the fear of debate over the se...
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Another ending for that Iraq/toilet taleOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - "Imagine a man standing in front of a clogged toilet," began Raleigh Sutton in his comparison of Iraq to a clogged toilet in an Oct. 7 edition. He illustrates the absurd...
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Patient access must be protectedOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - For seniors and a wide variety of other under-served populations, Medicare funding ensures that diagnosis and treatment is accessible and affordable. When the previous C...
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Questions needing answers in Dist. 204Oct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - The District 204 school board is engaging in a bit of revisionist history. Board president Mark Metzger stated in the Oct. 3 Daily Herald: "We are certainly, most likely...