DuPage County Opinion
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Soapbox: District earns national recognitionOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 definitely deserves a gold star. For the second straight year, one of the district's schools was named a No Child Left Behind Blue ...
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Soapbox: A nice traditionOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Geneva Park District hit a home run by dedicating ballfields after former park district commissioners and former landowners. Sam Hill, John Burns Sr. and George and ...
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Override veto of child health planOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - President Bush has vetoed the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Plan. Congress has voted to boost funding by $35 billion over the ne...
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Fair Tax Act needs passage right awayOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Ron Petrucci's Sept. 24 letter addressing Charles Firth is right on a number of points. We have been running more than an $800 billion trade deficit. That can't go on fo...
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Soapbox: Just keep this in mindOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - We understand why students were offended by author Sherman Alexie's use of a racial slur, sexual innuendo and language that offended disabled students and their teachers...
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Facts of abortion must be understoodOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Sept. 18 letter to the Fence Post by Jeff Biss, regarding the proposed Planned Parenthood clinic, is incomplete. When talking with my friends, I find there are as ma...
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Great cooperation in storm cleanupOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - In the aftermath of the Aug. 23 F-1 tornado, the unincorporated areas of Milton Township experienced the worst storm damage in living memory. The township highway depart...
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Soapbox: Tough (and caring) guys wear pinkOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a fact that has taken on poignant meaning at Fremd High School, where football players Matt, Drew and Adam Mertes rece...
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Only troops can answer questionOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - I am no expert. I would like to start by saying I have no experience in the military or in military strategy. I have no experience in national or international security....
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Pick up the pace for building bypassOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Three years to study a project that already has been on the books for what seems like decades? That's what state highway planners are now proposing in regard to actually...