DuPage County Opinion
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Pay attention to history, not beliefsDec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - Judy Arenas Nov. 19 and Terry Spangler's Dec. 15 Letters to the Editor both have it wrong. This country was founded on "Separation of Church and State." They came from E...
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Dec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - What if students were told to wear cross for a day? Isn't the Vernon Hills High School "Walk a mile in her hijab" as featured on your front page on Dec. 10 a violat...
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Refugees should go to Middle EastDec 16, 2015 11:01 pm - I cannot for the life of me figure out why people in this country oppose improved background checking for Muslims wishing to come to this country. It's obvious that the ...
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Editorial: Find cause of shrinking achievement gap for Hispanics at ECC and spread itDec 16, 2015 10:00 pm - As the Daily Herald's Poverty Achievement Index has borne out, whether in previous standardized state tests or the just-released results of the new PARCC test, there is ...
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Editorial: Hamilton's departure may not set stage for COD harmonyDec 16, 2015 9:00 am - So. The College of DuPage spring lasted all of one day. On Monday, the morning after Kathy Hamilton's abrupt and unexplained resignation from the fractured COD board, ma...
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What does this say of religious tolerance?Dec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - What does this say of religious tolerance? So, let me get this straight. Our daughters are dressed in Muslin hijabs in a public school to foster tolerance of a reli...
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Second Amendment intent hasn't changedDec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - In his Dec. 14 letter, Theodore Utchen writes that since the Second Amendment referred to the need of the militia to be called up from the populace, it is no longer rele...
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Response to history's revisionistsDec 14, 2015 11:01 pm - This is in response to the letter from Judy Arenas in the Nov. 19 issue of the Daily Herald. She pulls a supposed quote from John Adams somewhere at the same time that a...
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Thanks for random act of kindnessDec 14, 2015 11:01 pm - On Dec. 8, a group of residents of the DuPage County Convelescent Center went Christmas shopping at the Target store on County Farm Road in Wheaton. After I had finished...
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Chipping away at moral commitmentsDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - The Kochs, ALEC, politicians (the enablers) and wealthy investors are chipping away at the fabric of our moral commitments to one another. Recently we learned that the K...